Hollywood’s famous movie The Matrix shows that our visible world is a giant make-believe world of a matrix created by our machine overlords. The reality is something totally different than what we experience daily. The protagonist of the movie Neo is being exposed to this world of slavery by the rebel character Morpheus. He offers […]
Author Archives: Madhusudan Raj
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Jul
Jul
Our world is by and large going left liberal and woke. These groups of people espouse ideas like gender equality or self gender identification, gender feminism, anti-racism, open immigration, multiculturalism etc. American social political groups like Black Lives Matters or ANTIFA (Anti Fascist) etc., represent such ideologies. Personally speaking, I see no problems with this […]
09
Jun
Jun
The fundamental question all human beings face is, how do we organize our society in such a way that leads to the achievement of ground norms of justice, peace, prosperity and civilization? Particularly, how to organize the society so it avoids conflict between its members and promotes cooperation. In this short essay I am going […]
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May
May
The latest issue of the Economist magazine (figure 1) discusses the coming digital currencies of the governments. It talks about how these currencies are risky but a risk worth taking and how they will transform finance as we know it today. Let’s see what risk we all are taking when governments are going to impose […]
16
May
May
Book review: Feardom: How Politicians Exploit Your Emotions and What You Can Do to Stop Them by Connor Boyack. Libertas Press (8 December 2014) Connor Boyack, the founder and president of Libertas Institute a libertarian think tank in Utah, has written an important book on the subject matter of the pervasive human emotion of fear […]