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  • The Dialectic of Self Interest and Altruism

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    Connagh Wrangle
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    What I mean by Dialectic is in line with Hegel’s concept of opposing concepts resolving in a synthesis of sorts. This post will be fairly short, but will capture a brief muse I’ve not yet written down in public. Essentially the muse is born of the question of whether self interest or altruism is the…

  • Schizophrenic Politics and the Modern World Stage

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    Connagh Wrangle
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    Schizophrenia, meaning ‘split mind’ in ancient Greek- there is no better term for the current state of politics. Vladislav Surkov (“Putin’s Rasputin”) introduced some interesting concepts to the Russian propaganda machine, inspired by absurdist and surrealist art theory. If you can make such a confusion of a spectacle, make every event polarising and divisive, and…