When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy
Descartes' dualism was obviously wrong, but it won over western civilization.
Eric Scheske
Descartes Praised Lycurgus. It’s Our Earliest Glimpse of the Problem with Modernist Thinking
There’s a direct line between Descartes’ admiration for Lycurgus and modernity’s parade of love affairs with strong leaders who would use rationality to impose their subjective reality on the world.
An Unjust Law is No Law at All
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[https://www.pexels.com/photo/hand-of-a-person-with-handcuffs-7773264/]It has
become something of a habit in both the American and Canadian media to insist
that the Canadian trucker protest against vaccine mandates is an "illegal
protest." They are "illegal border protests
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A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease
Prometheus' proud defiance of the divine order made him into a raving maniac. He lost his connection to the Tao: the transcendental router.
The Secret Life of Philip Rieff
By Blake Smith, at The Tablet
Supply Chain Problems Favor Amazon and the Big Boxes
SMALLER RETAILERS SIMPLY CANNOT COMPETE with their bigger rivals in a supply
chain scramble. A case in point: Giants like Walmart, Home Depot, and Dollar
Tree have chartered their own cargo ships to sail to smaller ports like
Houston,
Texas, and Everett, Washington
[https://gcaptain.com/reluctant-merchants-embracing-amazons-charted-ships-and-global-shipping-services-this-holiday-season/]
, avoiding weeks-long waits
The Gnostic Hates the Structure
Part VI of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits (Part I, of Two Parts)
Howard Stern Has Left the Building
Howard Stern was never just another entertainer. For millions of (mostly male)
fans—first in New York, and later, thanks to syndication, in markets around
North America—he was the guy who helped get them through the day and rise above
their mundane frustrations, with his irreverent humor about politics
Keep Sweet and Have Sex
Like those renegade Mormons, we all put things on the shelf when they don't fit into our system.
The Gnostic is Never Satisfied
Part I of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits