The Fragile Art of Deliberation: Understanding Human Limits in Rational Decision-Making

Rational deliberation is costly and context-dependent, layered over intuition, emotions, and social cues. Good deliberation embraces divergent views and constructive dissent, but our lost practice of dialectics and rhetoric weakens this vital democratic skill. #CognitiveLimits #Deliberation #Democracy @davevolek Rational deliberation—the careful weighing of options and arguments—is…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/the-fragile-art-of-deliberation-understanding-human-limits-in-rational-decision-making/

The Fragile Art of Deliberation: Human Limits in Rational Decision-Making

Human deliberative reasoning is a costly, context-dependent capacity — not a constant baseline. Studies reveal it’s layered on intuitive heuristics, emotions, and social cues, making sustained democratic reasoning fragile but not impossible. 🇬🇧 EN 🇫🇷 FR #CognitiveLimits #Deliberation #Psychology #Democracy @davevolek Rational deliberation — the ability to carefully weigh options, engage in…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/the-fragile-art-of-deliberation-human-limits-in-rational-decision-making/

Privacy rights aren't a luxury, they are fundamental to democracy, to safety, and to so many other human rights.

When they attack your privacy rights,
they attack all of this, they attack your humanity.

Do not let them.
Fight back for your human rights.

#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights

I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.

But in my years working in privacy,
I don't think I've seen anything as terrifying as this European Chat Control proposal. And I'm not even European.

Everyone needs to pay
much more attention and be much more worried and outraged about this.

This proposal is the most dystopian glimpse into a horrible authoritarian future I have seen so far in the West.

It looks dismal, but we can still stop it
if we all work TOGETHER NOW ✊

There isn't much time left though,
so don't put it to next week.

Democracy dies in silence.

• Everyone: Learn more here
• Everyone: Spread the word on social media
• Europeans: Contact your local media NOW
• Europeans: Contact your MEPs NOW

The final vote in on October 14th,
but media and representatives need to receive your messages NOW, so they have enough time to act on it.

#ChatControl #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #StopScanningMe #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli

Philosophy loves demolition-and-rebuild. Descartes tears the house down, nails God in as a beam. Nietzsche dynamites it, sketches an Übermensch. MacIntyre bolts Aristotle’s table to the ruins. Each insists this time the structure is sound.

Dis-integrationism breaks the cycle. It pauses after demolition, refuses to re-integrate, and insists we remember our floors are always built, never found.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/21/dis-integrationism-why-the-floorboards-always-creak/

#Philosophy #Ethics #Nietzsche #Modernity #Morality #Truth #Democracy #lies

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Cracked floorboards

@TheViking what #democracy? you live under a #dictatorship of #capital and always have....

lefties who bitch about democrats need to get out for the fucking primaries and vote for the candidates who are out there getting thrown to the ground by ICE at protests

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/chicago-ice-protest-democrat-kat-abughazaleh-thrown-tear-gas-rcna232512

primaries. are. what. matter.

give them money too if you got it

#ice #democrats #democracy #protests

Old men will watch children play until the kids get hurt and in a healthy #Democracy, one must have faith in process.
#Biden, with his years of experience in government, allowed the #tax trap to close on the entire Republican party.

The laws in the United States WILL be their fate.
#NoKings !

Going to protests works ✊

Contacting your representatives works 📬

Building alternative platforms works

Creating supportive networks works

Advocating on social media works 🗣️

Stop telling people their action doesn't work, and pick one that works for you.

We need all of this and more to win.
Learn to fight together 💚

#HumanRights #Democracy #Protest #NoKings #USpol #UKpol #EUpol #CanPoli

We keep repeating that the Enlightenment was an epoch — the dawn of Reason™. Yet my survey results show no one actually lives there. Three managed to shed superstition, and no one avoided postmodernism. Modernity wasn’t a phase; it was an archetype, defended like the Emperor’s phantom wardrobe.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/13/modernity-the-phase-that-never-was/
#Enlightenment #Philosophy #Democracy #Satire #Modernity #CriticalTheory #Metamodernism #Critique #politics #zombies

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Enlightened Modern Zombie

If you've seen my posts in the past weeks, you've seen me post about Chat Control 🗣️

In case you don't know what this is about, here's a short summary of the issue:

What is Chat Control? 🫢 👁️‍🗨️

"Chat Control" refers to a series
of legislative proposals in the European Union that would make it mandatory for all service providers (text messaging, email, social media, cloud storage, hosting services, etc.) to scan all digital communications and files (including end-to-end encrypted ones), in order to supposedly detect whatever the government deems "abusive material."

This would also affect people outside of Europe, in one way or another

🚨 This Friday, September 12th, EU countries will finalize their positions on the matter 🚨

Sadly, many countries currently support this proposition for unprecedented mass surveillance.

You can learn more about it, and what you can do to help, in this article 👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now

#Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Democracy #DigitalRights #ChatControl

Banksy removed ...... in ........
the UK.

Because freedom of expression is a bit too much for the 'leaders' of the UK democracy.

@davidho.bsky.social
#UK #Democracy #Freedom #Lost

New Privacy Guides article ⛔
by me:

Chat Control is one of the
most terrifying proposal for dystopian authoritarianism the Western world has seen in years.

We need your help to fight it ✊🇪🇺

For democracy,
For privacy,
And for all other human rights,
We cannot afford to lose this battle.

📩 If you are European (EU):

Contact your MEPs this week before Friday, September 12th, to tell them to oppose Chat Control (more information in the linked article).

🗣️ If you are outside of the EU:

Spread the word! Tell your friends and family in the EU about it! Make noise on social media! This will affect you too.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/

#PrivacyGuides #ChatControl #StopScanningMe #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #EUpol

" While ICE wears masks, the proud Americans in the streets wanted Trump to know who they are. They came from all walks of life carrying signs such as 'Free DC, 'protect DC home rule' and 'stop the Trump takeover.' "

https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/trump-wants-people-scared-instead?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
#NoTrump #NoTroops #Occupation #Democracy #Insurgency #Trump&Epstein

Critiques of Representative Democracy: From the Elite Market to Living Democracy

Sharp critiques by Schumpeter (“elite market”), Bourdieu (“the magic of delegation”), Proudhon (“representation fiction”) and Weil (“parties as makers of collective passions”) reveal representative democracy as a delegation system prone to oligarchy. Living democracy is not just participatory — it is real, direct, and insurgent. #Democracy #LivingDemocracy #PoliticalTheory olycom - weil -…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/critiques-of-representative-democracy-from-the-elite-market-to-living-democracy/

Critique of Representative Democracy by Hannah Arendt

🗳️Discover how Hannah Arendt analyzes the alienation of citizens and denounces representative democracy as a form of oligarchy. She advocates for active participation and proposes a system of councils to revitalize political life. Read this post to learn more! #Democracy #Arendt #Politics #CivicEngagement #Philosophy *description (see below) Political Alienation of the Citizen Hannah Arendt, an influential…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/critique-of-representative-democracy-by-hannah-arendt/

Technopolitics: The Digital War of Big Tech

Asma Mhalla, in her essay Technopolitics, explores the growing grip of Big Tech on our democracies. She introduces the concept of “total technology,” which transforms citizens into “soldiers” in a digital war. In the face of this militarization, she calls for a new social pact to restore balance. An urgent appeal to rethink our relationship with technology! #Mhalla #Technopolitics #BigTech #Democracy #TotalTechnology…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/technopolitics-the-digital-war-of-big-tech/

Today in Parliament Sq. Defend Our Juries organised a protest against the proscription of Palestine Action.

Amnesty International's director of campaigns, Kerry Moscogiuri, said it was 'genuinely shocking to see people being hauled from the streets of London by the police for peacefully holding up signs'... When the government is arresting people under terrorism laws for sitting peacefully in protest, something is going very wrong'!

Indeed it is!

#democracy #polotics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62qrmpd7l5o

McConnell needs to STFU. He was instrumental in creating the Tangerine Trumpenstein monster that is destroying every single corner stone of American democracy.

For years, McConnell was also responsible for creating the right wing disgrace we laughing call the Supreme Court. The same institution that dismantled abortion rights.

#mcconnell #scotus #america #abortion #trump #democracy #republicans #MAGA #news #cowardice #mitchmcconnell

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In image of Mitch McConnell.

Surveillance Capitalism: The Ultimate Threat to Our Freedom

🚨 #DigitalResistance #Zuboff #FreedomOrSurveillance #philosophy #democracy @philosophy "Only a popular collective resistance can push global governments to recognize and legislate against the dangers of surveillance capitalism to avoid a dystopian future dominated by these practices." – Shoshana Zuboff At the beginning of 2025, the warnings issued by Shoshana Zuboff in her book…EN/FR versions below ⬇️

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/surveillance-capitalism-the-ultimate-threat-to-our-freedom/

Georgian MP who accused west of ‘blackmail’ appointed security chief as report warns of autocratic takeover - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/mamuka-mdinaradze-to-be-georgia-security-chief-as-report-warns-of-descent-into-authoritarianism sadly true, #democracy is dying in #georgia

New hashtag dropped, inspired by Garry Kasparov.

Fight For Our Values.

#F4OV

#uspol #democracy

Chat Control and Age Verification laws aren't about protecting the children. They're about mass surveillance and rising authoritarianism.

These laws endanger everyone,
including the children,
and including democracy.

#HumanRights #Privacy #Democracy