analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

Everything Is Ideology

stuff On the patterns you didn't choose

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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

  • 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...
  • stupid questions 1 Jan 2026 [article] Nature is just nurture over time, and nurture is far more obviously in charge; nothing changes if free will isn’t real; and the same is true...
  • there is no authentic self 11 Apr 2025 [article] There’s no hidden version of you. If anything, we are a collection of bits and pieces that we weave together from the stories we learn from...
  • 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...
  • bdsm as a lazy ideology 17 Jan 2025 [article] BDSM is an ideology stack—a collection of behaviours borne of a culture that surrounds some core set of human needs. But is it lazy? Hard to...
  • confirmation bias is all there is 18 Oct 2024 [article] Many cognitive biases seem like they can be boiled down to a handful of fundamental beliefs, and then belief-consistent information processi...
  • there are no levels 4 Oct 2024 [article] The ‘naming’ problem, where by naming something we feel we have explained it, the ‘language’ problem, where the words we use stop others fro...
  • great spirits of history 6 Sep 2024 [article] The ‘Great Man’ theory of history has the history of ideas moved forward by individuals. But by thinking of these as ‘Great Ideas’, or bette...
  • it's not social media, life is just worse 2 Aug 2024 [article] Social media use probably isn’t the problem. Social media use is probably just the most obvious manifestation of lots of problems. And in fa...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • eerie coincidences aren't that eerie 12 Nov 2023 [article] Your phone probably isn’t eavesdropping for ads. Your brain’s job is to highlight unexpected hits while ignoring the misses. Eerie coinciden...
  • solving the say-do-gap 12 May 2023 [article] To close the say-do-gap, we need to feel some ownership of the problem, we need the social support to support the change, and we need to kno...
  • 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...
  • the value of ritual 17 Mar 2023 [article] Rituals are often dismissed, but they’re just procedures with a purpose. We all engage in ritualistic behavior—many habits and routines meet...
  • malcolm gladwell shit 14 Feb 2023 [article] The most successful facts about the world are the ones that subvert our weakly held beliefs. They look like they’re about improvement, but t...
  • knowledge is just easy measurement 31 Jan 2023 [article] We often rely too heavily on the easiest measurements for a thing, calling that knowledge and then waving away the evidence that there is mo...
  • everything is choice architecture 12 Jan 2023 [article] Nudging doesn’t work because people aren’t thinking hard enough. Everything is choice architecture, so look to the way you build things in t...
  • abstractions as gods 28 Dec 2022 [article] We can use abstractions to get a handle on complex features of the world. By personalising centres of purpose in the world, we can better co...

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