(A note on terminology: The "cultural singularity" would basically be the vast majority of people adopting an "Aristotelian-Jeffersonian-Randian" way of life.)
1) On the 14th of this month, I promised something on the subject of "force, alienation, and the dialectical tradition." (April 15th in America is a date widely noted for the federal government's use of physical compulsion or force against its citizens, see, and so the timing seemed appropriate. Alas, I've been busy, hence the delay.) In relation to that grouping of subjects, I floated this posting over at the philosophy subreddit (but, /r/philosophy being such a joke, it got next to no traction there, and it even received a downvote from an anonymous coward, probably an anti-Rand one if that forum's history is any guide). Perfectivism, of course, urges the student of P/perfectivism to present the best theory he or she possibly can, with due engagement with the philosophical tradition. This linked posting represents the state-of-the-art in such a process of dialectic. Methinks that forums like /r/philosophy may very well just have to learn the hard way, whatever that turns out to be.
2) "What would Socrates do?" A review by Naomi Schaefer Riley of the late Earl Shorris's The Art of Freedom, in today's Wall Street Journal. I like how, in Shorris's Western-humanities curriculum which some idiots criticized as culturally imperialist, he opted for the likes of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty over African cultural studies. Doesn't that rather conclusively demonstrate how some cultures are objectively superior to (i.e., more advanced than) others? English culture gave rise to On Liberty; to what, comparably speaking, did African culture give rise? (American culture, meanwhile, gave rise to The Fountainhead and Google. America, fuck yeah!) My, how easily the idiots can miss a point....
Note: Three days until I go on strike. I'm thinking 4:20 p.m. on 4/20. Whatever verbal rivers of gold that any of my saganized cognition generates thereafter may be my exclusive private domain indefinitely, unless or until the eminently reasonable conditions I've set forth are met. I haven't ruled out forming some kind of "Ultimate Gulch" along with high standards for admission, however....
