Teun van Son
Teun van Son
Teun van Son
Ecology, responsibility, entanglement, love. A blog by a Caucasian male(ish) human being. Common themes may be philosophy, ethics, environment, love and relationships, and how absolutely fucked the world has become. No so-called 'AI'-generated content, ever.
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"It's so weird that this isn't weird" The voice came out of a pile of around a dozen people. The room was dark, I couldn't see who said it. The people in the pile were lying criss-cross on top of each other, forming a kind of net of...
There's this tenacious idea that in an unequal society, those at the top are the winners. That is, if you manage to avoid oppression, and if you manage to do the oppressing yourself, then you've got yourself a good life. I'm a white man...
The first time I heard the phrase 'All Cops Are Bastards' in an activist context, it shocked me. I thought it was way out of line, a dangerous generalization that can only cause prejudice and hatred. Not at all the kind of attitude we...
Often, in discussions about things deemed undesirable, someone will use an annoyingly popular trope. I call it 'the people's fallacy'. (Even though I secretly hate the trend of calling everything a fallacy. It has strong LessWrong and...
I'll keep this one short and sweet: Digital archiving is crucial in the face of rising fascism. I'll go over the why and the how. WhyFascists are grappling for power around the world. The US is only the most notable example, but European...
A blog post about coffee addiction that somehow ends up being about entanglement, capitalism, and colonialism.
Update 19-06-2025: since the publication of this blog post, I have adapted it for the Dutch-language philosophy webzine Bij Nader Inzien, and it was published there today! It uses largely the same sources, but it's shorter and perhaps a...
I'm constantly being asked and pushed not to care about others. That's just the society we live in. The #1 concern for any good citizen should be 'doing well for yourself'. That means: get a job, get married, buy a house, hoard some...
This post is about something I'm struggling with in my philosophical research, and I hope that by writing about it, I will gain some clarity. Don't expect neatly structured arguments here. When talking about decentering the human in...