Ewan Morrison, Author at Areo

Cute Authoritarianism

Something sinister is going on with cuteness. Over the last five years, we’ve seen the sudden appearance of cute Facial ID Recognition surveillance, cute government health messaging, cute military propaganda,…

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17 min

The Great Reboot: In Memoriam Mark Fisher

“We remain trapped in the twentieth century,” claimed theorist Mark Fisher. “The future has disappeared.” It’s hard to believe that it’s been six years since Fisher’s suicide, at the age of…

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14 min

Carnivals Come Cheap: Eco-Activists and the Attacks on Art

I am deeply concerned about the climate change issue. I come from a family background of protest, but over the decades I’ve learned which forms of protest are effective and…

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14 min

The Optimistic Nihilists

Life is utterly meaningless, but this is a great opportunity to have fun creating our own meanings—that’s the latest postmodern self-help mantra. The trend known as optimistic nihilism is a…

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10 min

The Lab Leak and Other Conspiracy Theories, Some Of Which Turned Out to Be True

Conspiracy theories are the new evil of our time—or so we thought. Over the past six months, there has been a unified drive from politicians and Big Tech to ban…

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12 min

Politics

Asking Utopians How: An Alternative Strategy for Defending Freedom of Speech

I used to be woke a good fifteen years before it was called that. You could call it proto-woke, but I called myself a post-Marxist, sometimes a postmodernist. Being a…

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17 min

Apocalypse No: Why I No Longer Believe in the End of the World

My family was big on apocalypse. My Calvinist grandmother and my anti-nuclear father were both convinced, in different ways, that the end was nigh. For my father and me, this…

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15 min

Culture & Media

Why We Must Walk Away from Omelas: The Problem with Utopias

The history of Utopian Fiction proves that we can’t even imagine a better world. As progressive politics takes another step towards dominance across the west, there has been yet another…

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19 min

Psychology

Why We Join Cults

At the start of April, we were shocked to discover the details of the NXIVM cult—an organisation which “brainwashed and blackmailed women into being sex slaves.” The female members of…

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35 min

Features

Why Utopian Communities Fail

Once again we see a resurgence of interest in intentional communities and in Utopian experiments in living communally. Even Time Magazine is advocating such ways of living as a solution…

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Ewan Morrison

Cute Authoritarianism

The Great Reboot: In Memoriam Mark Fisher

Carnivals Come Cheap: Eco-Activists and the Attacks on Art

The Optimistic Nihilists

The Lab Leak and Other Conspiracy Theories, Some Of Which Turned Out to Be True

Asking Utopians How: An Alternative Strategy for Defending Freedom of Speech

Apocalypse No: Why I No Longer Believe in the End of the World

Why We Must Walk Away from Omelas: The Problem with Utopias

Why We Join Cults

Why Utopian Communities Fail

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