Mario SpassovWhether we believe something depends on what it symbolises to us not whether it is trueWhen I think back at the Olympics this year I have the following images in my head: the Australian breakdancer, the Algerian boxing…Aug 25Aug 25
Mario SpassovWhy do worldviews stick?Recently I have stumbled upon quite a few one-dimensional accounts of what modernity is. One-dimensional, because they usually tell a…Aug 23Aug 23
Mario SpassovHow to get from unnecessary polarisation to reasonable disagreementWe discuss the possibility of getting to reasonable disagreements again, where we can respectfully disagree on issues that matter to us…Aug 18Aug 18
Mario SpassovHumanism doesn’t have enough glue to hold people togetherI have heard this claim quite often. And therefore, so the argument goes, we need religion back. Right. But the problem is, neither has…Mar 28Mar 28
Mario SpassovSpeaking about having difficult conversations instead of having difficult conversationsI listened to most of John Vervaekes content on the meaning-crisis. Up to now this is more than 100 hours of lectures and talks that I paid…Dec 30, 2023Dec 30, 2023
Mario SpassovWhat you call your intuition others call biasJohn Vervaeke recently made this point on the side. I think he has something there. If someone asks us to give a first-person account of…Dec 29, 2023Dec 29, 2023
