analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

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analects under the categories btrmt. believes in, as set out in the manifesto

analects organised according to the fundamental questions of philosophy

sequences of articles gathered around a more focused idea

  • successful prophets 5 Jun 2026 [article] We think of cults as the product of dangerously charismatic leaders but on examination this narrative falls apart. Really, the most successf...
  • useful men 4 Apr 2026 [article] It’s true that the ‘pathways’ to manhood are closing. I don’t think it’s a crisis of masculinity though. It’s a crisis of no more excuses fo...
  • hydraulic despotism 1 Dec 2025 [article] Control the water, control the people. Today’s water is energy, social media, infrastructure. We’re coerced through convenience, not malice....
  • mechanical ethics 1 Oct 2025 [article] Vincent’s S-CALM model describes the situational and cognitive factors that undermine ethical behaviour. Mechanistic thinking helps explain...
  • sacrificing the self 4 Apr 2025 [article] When we want to identify with a group, we bias ourselves to filter out all theother ways we could be. It helps us cut down all our competing...
  • language is a barrier to communication 28 Feb 2025 [article] Our brain clusters things that are similar to each other together. This includes ideas and the words we attach to them. If your words are at...
  • aesthetics are facts too 21 Feb 2025 [article] Cultural and aesthetic ‘facts’ are as real as any ‘objective’ truths. They’re just centred on different kinds of meaning. Trivialising them...
  • when groups go bad 3 Jan 2025 [article] Without more tasteful social behaviours to sample from, we’re liable to attach very strongly to the behaviours of our group. Add a hostile e...
  • useful groups are biased groups 27 Dec 2024 [article] The strength of our attraction to a group is a function of how different a group is from other groups in ways that we feel like we are, or l...
  • mob mentality is fine 20 Dec 2024 [article] You could think of a collection of group dynamics like ‘groupthink’ or ‘deindividuation’ or whatever are bad. Or you could consider that our...
  • catastrophic leadership is actually really hard 13 Dec 2024 [article] For group dynamics to produce really bad behaviour, you really need to work at it. You have to train your authority figures to be cruel, pre...
  • men and women are from earth, fool pt. iii 27 Sep 2024 [article] This book is basically, “men are terribly emotionally fragile, and they can make small steps to be better, but women need to just stop bothe...
  • men and women are from earth, fool pt. ii 20 Sep 2024 [article] I guarantee, no matter how sexy traditional gender roles are to you, that you do not want to be like Gray’s ‘men’.
  • men and women are from earth, fool pt. i 13 Sep 2024 [article] Not only is there is absolutely no difference between men and women in how they complain or offer criticism, but the ‘men’ Gray describe cou...
  • the value of violence 9 Aug 2024 [article] The utility of violence isn’t in the violence itself, but only in the threat of it. It creates immediate behaviour change, but only for so l...
  • ideologies stack 15 Jun 2024 [article] Fringe theories always seem to cluster together. It seems weird, but mainstream theories also do, we just don’t often examine them. Examinin...
  • active listening is misleading 11 Jan 2024 [article] Active listening isn’t about ticking boxes in conversation; it’s about diving into emotions to transform surface-level chit-chat into deep,...
  • the trouble with objectivity 21 Dec 2023 [article] The obsession over objectivity is a confusion of two things. There’s rationality, the desire to be less biased. Then there’s truth which is...
  • leadership consulting is usually more 'feel good' than 'do good' 17 Aug 2023 [article] Leadership consulting proposes to fix leaders, but because we can confuse ‘making leaders feel good’ with ‘making leaders better’ it usually...
  • saving the planet is an illusion 15 Apr 2023 [article] Sustainability discussions often prioritise saving the planet, missing the fact that the planet doesn’t care about climate change. Maybe we...

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