99. DUNE BUGGED ME - On Being Bored of War

November 08, 2021 by DaN McKee in Culture, Death, Militarisation, Philosophy, Philosophy Unleashed, Pop Culture, War

“We have been primed to be ready for war. We have been conditioned to expect it imminently. We have been told that a time will come when we have to pick a side and that we may not even be able to trust our closest friends. We have been fed the ideological norms of conflict escalation and had massacre and genocide normalised. All in the name of entertainment. To assume such repeated and sustained messaging will have no impact is to ignore the evidence of all other successful marketing strategies.“

94. TWENTY YEARS LATER: What Is The Purpose of Remembering 9/11?

September 20, 2021 by DaN McKee in Culture, Death, Education, Meaning, Militarisation, Philosophy, Philosophy Unleashed, Politics, War

“It is not said enough that on September 11th, 2001, a significant number of people around the world witnessed on live television the death of nearly three thousand people. Seeing one person die would be considered a trauma. Something requiring years of therapy. Something from which we might never recover. Who knows how many of the terrible events of the last twenty years are the result of a traumatised humanity who never got the professional help they needed to come to terms with what they saw when those towers fell?“