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Comment author: morganism 22 May 2016 09:28:13PM *  0 points [-]

The scourge of existential nihilism has a cure

A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

http://www.amazon.com/Significant-Life-Meaning-Silent-Universe/dp/022623567X

pure philosophy inside, lots of Aristotle reasoning examined.

Also if you are at all interested in the surveillance state, and some of the legal reasoning that it may be breaking the separation of powers, the whole issue of the Monthly Review is excellent reading

The New Surveillance Normal

http://monthlyreview.org/archives/2014/volume-66-issue-03-july-august/

Comment author: Lumifer 22 May 2016 11:55:31PM 0 points [-]

The New Surveillance Normal

It took me less than a paragraph to get to

we need to consider how the NSA and corporate metadata mining converge to support the interests of capital

at which point I stopped reading.

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