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Eric Scheske

71 Thoughts to Improve Your Thoughts

71 Thoughts to Improve Your Thoughts

I’m a weak man. Actually, “inconstant” is a better adjective. Here’s the problem: I read an insightful passage, decide that I’ll apply it to my life, and then forget about it. Fortunately, I realized this early in life. Specifically, back in the late 1980s when I was

The Primitive Marauder is the Modern State, Evolved

The Primitive Marauder is the Modern State, Evolved

Check out last week's episode of Econtalk: Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State - EconlibSince at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering to farming allowed the creation of the State. Farming, so went the theory, led to agricultural surplus,

Was Albert Jay Nock Like Socrates?

Was Albert Jay Nock Like Socrates?

Nock’s Memoirs is the figurative equivalent of Socrates drinking the hemlock. But both are suicides that were necessary in light of their worldview. Nock’s Memoirs is his way of getting involved: the only way he could get involved and live true to his principles.

Legolas Canceled for Misappropriating Dwarf Culture

Legolas Canceled for Misappropriating Dwarf Culture

The Rivendell Review July 18, 1702 (Shire Reckoning) RIVENDELL. Local playboy Legolas has been canceled. “He's the worst of misappropriaters,” exclaimed Pat Curunir, President of the Anti-Misappropriation League. “When he's east of the Misty Mountains, he misappropriates dwarf culture by acting like he's the

Ice Backs

Ice Backs

Vermont and Texas are the only two states that were once independent republics. That's now not the only thing they have in common.

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest

Bill Burr has a great bit where he describes parenting as a 25-30 year sentence. You're sucked into a bubble, cut off from the outside world as you try to raise your kids. When you come out, you're stuck in, say, 1993 but it's

The Self-Destructive Effects of Progressive Sadness

The Self-Destructive Effects of Progressive Sadness

David Brooks at the New York Times

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump

💡I wrote the following decades ago. In light of the Hemisphere Hypothesis, I re-consider it. Is Forrest a left hemispheric or a right hemispheric? If his odd character is on "the Spectrum," he's a man bereft of the right hemisphere (autism is left-hemispheric). But maybe he&

We Need More COVID Outrage

We Need More COVID Outrage

The COVID debacle doesn't rankle enough: not enough people seem ashamed or apologetic; not enough people seem to appreciate the enormity of what our politicians did. I, no exaggeration, find it greatly disturbing for an obvious reason: they'll do it again and too many of us

The Unsound and Little Fury

The Unsound and Little Fury

A tale told by an idiot Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I see a groundhog. I hate him, but not as much as I hate Satan. Satan and groundhogs are kinda the same thing, except groundhogs stop once they've eaten everything in my garden. I