Author: Nicholas Gramlich

Everything is real. Since everything must exist in reality, it has realness. One may say a hallucination isn’t real, but what one means is that it has no external presence. It would be inappropriate to truly say the hallucination doesn’t exist, as the person who is having them is having them. What one really wants Read More …

Subjectivism is a very popular view of our existence. It is the assumption that one’s self and emotional experience are the only knowable truths, and is often the presumption that the subject is the only real thing. Because of these presumptions, it lends itself to the psychological drive of power lust. Power lust is the Read More …

By some people, racism is seen as flowing from our racial biology and is considered natural. However, there’s nothing more natural about racism than any other ideology. The classification of people based on races is recent, within the last 500 years, and races have changed throughout history. There’s no clear biological marker that makes races Read More …

People often have presumptions about what it is like to be right or honest. They have concrete visions of what a right or honest person is. Often, the righteous are seen as ever placid and calm, never being subject to outside influences. However, this is an unrealistic and damaging expectation of what it means to Read More …

Need is often seen as the basis of morality. This is in regards to the altruist ethic, where helping the needy is the primary moral issue. However, the term “need” is used in many contexts that may not be used to refer to the needy. A person needs a car or they need a drink. Read More …

Lying has been something of a norm for people. People lie on a consistent basis in order to “get by,” e.g. tax documents, resumes, police encounters, dates, etc. They lie to make people feel better. They lie to make people feel worse. Politicians lie regularly to keep appearances, and it isn’t much different for people Read More …

People take many actions every day. Those actions, more often than not, are intended to benefit one person or another. However, there’s a presumption that is often held that, if you were to benefit yourself, you could not benefit others. Doing something to help yourself is seen as exclusionary. Yet, doing something to help yourself, Read More …

Knowledge and validity have an inherent power in themselves. They are of existence. One may try to gain power through lying, and it can be effective. However, falsehoods only last as long as a person is willing to hold them or is fooled by them. A truth is something eternal that one can grasp regardless Read More …

Loving yourself has a common following in popular culture, but why should you love yourself? In altruism, where the proper beneficiary of actions is the other, it may be acceptable to not love yourself, as you and your love is supposed to be subordinated to others. However, in egoism, loving yourself is a moral necessity. Read More …

Our universe is a vast expanse with a vast quantity of things within it. In our daily lives, we are presented with a clutter and multitude of entities, big and small. These things each appear to have their own identity independent of everything else. Yet, everything seems to have a place among all other things Read More …