Eric Scheske
These Monks Were on a Search-and-Destroy Mission Against Their Left Hemispheres
It's hard to admit this, but here goes:
Back in my twenties, I decided I wanted to be a mystic.
Such a thing is absurd: The goal is foiled by the goal. You might as well decide you want to be a poor man with money (one of
Podcast: November 5, 2023
Slay Your Orc, Then Read Your Poetry
BYCU
Giving a Whole New Meaning to the "Rear Naked Choke"
And the "Reverse Mount," the "Rear Mount," the "Full Mount," the "Arm Drag," and the "Whizzer"
I was cracking up, just reading through a UFC glossary. Can you
"He is Interested Only in the Individual Soul Whom He Places Before God"
Advocates from across the political field have claimed Christ for their side: Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Conservatives, Monarchists. They all can find something in Christ's life or his words to support their political vision. It isn't surprising, of course, since every doctrine, no matter how absurd, has
Scrolling Blog: November 2023
November 30, 2023
Four Female Philosophers
His four magi, emerging from the material, moral, social, and political wreckage wrought by the First World War, grasped that philosophy had to be utterly reimagined.
Exactly. All the decent philosophers in the twentieth century knew modern thought was broken and had to be
Podcast: October 3, 2023
How to Think about the Cell Phone
Weapon of Self-Destruction or Tool of Self-Improvement:
The cell phone. Is it a great thing? A useful thing? An annoying thing? An addicting thing?
A ton of writers have condemned the cell phone on all sorts of grounds. They’re tired of rude talkers who use it in restaurants, parks,
Gothic Realism: Right Hemispheric?
The macabre might, in part, be a rejection of the Enlightenment and yet another route to re-energize the right hemisphere and its embrace of the trans-rational, much as the occult is a rejection of rationalism and its left hemispheric overlord.
The Gothic genre is particularly suited to depicting these elements.