after Arrival

---

After enlightenment which feels awesome, teaching faces audiences (students, readers, collleagues) who might care little about the enthusiasm. But if you happen to want to venture highly, what’s it like to be on a good path? This short discussion isn’t the answer. But the bridgework for teaching is interesting to entertain.

---

spring 2025

---

Though I’m working diligently, as far from current events as I can, avoiding Trumpism isn’t easy inasmuch as I want to stay somewhat in touch with daily news that matters.

So, like controlling a bad dream by catching it in articulation, thus deporting it from attention, I deport Trumpism.

Now back to work. Sorry I don’t have a pithy conceptual update to share this week. Coming soon.

---

for philosophically countering Bozo politics

---

Seventy years after Heidegger pursued his post-Holocaust, post-Hiroshima “question concerning technology,” the U.S. now has a Bozo administration welcoming intimations of techn-fascism.

I have the answer!—at X (screen shot there). I would argue that the humanities (U. of Penn. project) make genuine democracy possible, though I see conceptual modeling differently than the U. of Penn. project.

---

“’Morality is for suckers,’ Trump might say.”

---

My extended cynicism against Bozo turns into bibliophilic hope for “moral” philosophy in conceptions of educational excellence—though being “moral,” to me, is just ethical pragmatism treated as statutory normativity.

My discussion leads into a sequenced sense of moral conceptuality which can credibly ground a post-naturalistic sense of evolutionary ethics.

---