<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:32:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@superfluousman/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Group Identity and Collectivism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some time has past since I wrote an article about the misuses of social terms as a way to quickly sketch out an idea about how identifying into certain groups often morphs into a political issue; however]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@superfluousman/group-identity-and-collectivism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@superfluousman/group-identity-and-collectivism</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[superfluousman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:36:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/QVdSJhgNm7s1isdYsJFBDW9ZzoDuLBosbeESi96iEy3ZtCTNyfcdrE3avQ4cFwV1uYoFzgbt35prprZUAKNeVKD4bw2GyLz6zEo5kpSv2dCbox6Ben5s2LJ1CvHkYCZea2D3Z7QFzW7rib15E54m7ZpEyK6ugGsHTiAiqidWdigHbvQxALXsXMZ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economism: The Philosophy of Wealth Being Everything]]></title><description><![CDATA[The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible to a class of citizens to give to another—Voltaire @Vieira's recent post on how social hierarchy works got me thinking. If you read his]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@superfluousman/economism-the-philosophy-of-wealth-being-everything</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@superfluousman/economism-the-philosophy-of-wealth-being-everything</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[superfluousman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2018 02:16:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/9vWp6aU4y8kwSZ9Gw15LFL3aMdhmgmBBFMpDJregpdP328LhqEc6daAp7cFZUMDpa8J7izkdtLXUgWTDDBKLjesvE6CYSiZS4uqc7EqbF4n2KnjsaW9HvQD5igzVt55w4uGo2pfWvNwp6sJVk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Four Monsters and its Cures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eastern and Western ways of thinking, or any kind of cultural characteristics, are usually separated as two distinct modes of interpreting what one understands. This supposedly contrary division might]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@superfluousman/the-four-monsters-and-its-cures</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@superfluousman/the-four-monsters-and-its-cures</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[superfluousman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2018 14:46:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/32FTXiZsHoAWXDGUT6XfPTLRBbYW7TUFpRSTArzFmkHCnEjyhiBhCnxNd6c279hRTffSBnRF8phGJkn3CAaQPhUY9gLxtbazgDCepL1REax146oz4wrtzv9PMAr4go3HKzRLa5KceCVYHezS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Increase Social Power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.—Voltaire The State is easily the most destructive]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/anarchy/@superfluousman/how-to-increase-social-power</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/anarchy/@superfluousman/how-to-increase-social-power</guid><category><![CDATA[anarchy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[superfluousman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 17:19:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgu85mFpLjsB5bdcQRiiGHJEPFYM5SsibR2fA6KfadXSgaSASPkmekFcZZfGLwP5V6pbeMRKWBx8e2Txj9C2GrEF2j3YXuUd3pMi5QWCqZeSe8wGJmnuSHX4rAwDrQSRnmLxNZNaLVbnisDqFKU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Students of Human Nature]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anthropologists, archeologists, philosophers, and all others studying the nature of man quite often take the mainstream approach that humans has been evolving for the last thousands of years and the subsequent]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@superfluousman/for-the-students-of-human-nature</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@superfluousman/for-the-students-of-human-nature</guid><category><![CDATA[nature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[superfluousman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:19:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/21PRtjKRXPQyotRPt1Hd7fPufGf1WCpCvB7qBKbTkLr8ntrSWahzSd5ysf3p6VEtGUtkj2B5b9JWWFsDXEkGoNUvikmkTRxpVBgN1CgC3yM7tJXTBo7Y14k2PV5HFqVzH8goQxp2MPvSoFvCu88JsVG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion and Temperament]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whenever I browse social media, even here on Steemit, it's interesting to note how people give their opinions and arrange their thoughts in a manner in which they believe to be true. 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Shumacher Over the past three centuries, a main feature about civilization]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@superfluousman/the-triumph-of-standardization</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@superfluousman/the-triumph-of-standardization</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[superfluousman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:01:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/D5zH9SyxCKdBnJaFeHnL3svQi9ZN2XzXDbzH7Wc9v35ZgSLA6WuYJ5fMwtWBKC6N6jEV5FvjoLmibuWUqDgmJ9372PHkbhBM8Lb1R55yRBXaSeeqwWnGQSSDasnvpA23Ud1jdx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style, Workmanship, and Enjoyment]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was recently watching some of the Pipeline Masters, the last stop on the World Surf League tour in North Shore, Oahu, where I became sort of disturbed at the lack of general creativity and uniqueness]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@superfluousman/style-workmanship-and-enjoyment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@superfluousman/style-workmanship-and-enjoyment</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[superfluousman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 07:32:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/54TLbcUcnRm4iYtFdzVNy1kt3F2tvRShXkTnWxjMpibn2vS8pyNR4Y3DSjcUNqvU99bGmWDqV9LRFpfpAB5JvPKWQ8oLLLhe2H3h33iAhbDenW13Z39fzJ5mWnWGNuRg9ofzyYqKU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Parallel America]]></title><description><![CDATA[In North American vernacular it's common to distinguish South and North America as a separate continent. 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