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Eric Scheske

Gothic Realism: Right Hemispheric?

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.

Repair Culture on the Rise?

Repair Culture on the Rise?

The new issue of Plough magazine pushes for a return to repairing things. The thrust of this new movement: "throwaway culture" is creating all sorts of problems, from landfills to euthanasia. And big business is the reason. Starting in 1923, it stopped making products intended to last for

Nassim Taleb Tore into the Left Hemisphere Before The Master and His Emissary

Nassim Taleb Tore into the Left Hemisphere Before The Master and His Emissary

BYCU

BYCU

People are Drinking More of Those Frilly Canned Drinks And they're reducing household budgets and trying to live healthier Not mentioned: More people are smoking marijuana. It's easier to take the pledge when you're taking a bong hit. People Are Drinking Less Craft Beer.

Waiting for the Biggest Bar Night of the Year

Waiting for the Biggest Bar Night of the Year

💡BYCU from 2021 “The waiting is the hardest part.” Tom Petty #blackwednesdaysmatter It sits there. Five days away, the biggest bar night of the year, two years removed from the last one. Black Wednesday. I will have the traditional BYCU Special Edition next Wednesday. Today, I wait. I’m itching

James Schall's Another Sort of Learning

James Schall's Another Sort of Learning

Summer 1988. I’d just graduated from the University of Michigan and was preparing to enter the University of Notre Dame School of Law. I was working second shift at a local factory as a material handler (gopher). I was working six nights a week, Monday through Saturday,4:30

Can the Right Hemisphere Atrophy?

Can the Right Hemisphere Atrophy?

Darwin thought so

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BYCU

Finally, Political News We Can Drink To Austrian ‘Beer Party’ polling well in Vienna state electionThey have proposed a beer fountain in Vienna, the abolition of mandatory closing times and a 50 per cent tax on Radlers.The London EconomicJack Peat Ah, The Monkey is Back at $80 for the

The Art of Listening Opens the Right Hemisphere

The Art of Listening Opens the Right Hemisphere

The Gnostic: A Person Controlled by His Left Hemisphere, Plus a Cause

The Gnostic: A Person Controlled by His Left Hemisphere, Plus a Cause

Merely being controlled by the left hemisphere doesn't make a person a gnostic. He also needs a cause.