Shakespeare’s first performed plays occurred in the late 16th century, the colour television was first demonstrated in 1928, the first YouTube video (‘Me at the zoo’, uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim) was released approximately 23 years ago, and the modern social media titan, TikTok, was created approximately 10 years ago. The final marked an important, dangerous and disquieting epoch in entertainment. Though the claim that human attention span has dropped under that of a goldfish remains an incontrovertibly proven fallacy, in the past 20 years alone, the average amount of time a person can spend focused on a task digitally has plummeted from two and a half minutes to just 47 seconds. 47 seconds before we check the time, fiddle with our phones and lose our train of thought. Addiction to short-form content as such has greatly contributed to this collapse. To put it plainly, attention is a digital drug. It harnesses mass amounts of political, economic and social sway. For...
by Daniel Evans U6P The question of following one’s moral intuition is entirely different to that of trusting it. Certainly, there are reasons for one to follow their moral intuition - indeed, the laws and sanctions of our society are aimed (and succeed to a great extent) to prevent actions deemed immoral. However, regardless of the benefits or disadvantages of having a moral intuition, the question of trusting it can only be answered through a lens independent of one’s own egocentric moral perceptions; and ultimately, the question can only be answered with a resounding no . First considered must be the concept of trust itself: trust may be defined as “firm belief in the reliability, truth or ability of someone or something.” In this essay, these criteria will be applied to moral intuition in order to determine how much we really know right from wrong. Reliability Epistemology is one of the most distinctive and contentious features of ethical intuitionism. Many classical intuitionist...