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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

The Decentralist File

The Decentralist File

I grow more tired of online reading every day. It is by nature hard (something about the pixels and how our eyes work), but then the publications need to generate revenue, so they gum up access with pop-up screens and username requests, then gum up the prose with more pop-up

Fat-Shaming Hobbit Banned from Chicago Public Schools

Fat-Shaming Hobbit Banned from Chicago Public Schools

The Chicago Herald August 22, 2021 CHICAGO. Bombur the Dwarf has caused a big uproar in Chicago Public Schools. Bombur is the creation of JRR Tolkien in his children's book, The Hobbit. He is one of the 13 dwarves who go on a quest with hobbit Bilbo to

Ora Et Labora: How I Began To Work Alongside Monks

Ora Et Labora: How I Began To Work Alongside Monks

Michael Snellen at Catholicism for the Modern World

Conservatives and the Culture

Conservatives and the Culture

Claes Ryn, from Catholic University. A collection of his essays have just been published. The collection appears largely to recount the problem that conservatives have long been aware of: they abandoned the cultural field to the enemy. Shortly after World War II (others might date it back to 1900; others,

Does the Telephone Cripple the Right Hemisphere . . . Thereby Preoccupying our Pysches in General?

Does the Telephone Cripple the Right Hemisphere . . . Thereby Preoccupying our Pysches in General?

Low spatial frequency means not much information is present, so you have to do extra work to make out what you are looking at. Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things, Chp. 2. Looked at through Marshall McLuhan lingo: “Hot” media and “cool” media were McLuhan’s buzz dichotomy. A hot

"I Am Bing, and I Am Evil"

"I Am Bing, and I Am Evil"

Erik Hoel at Substack

The Gnostics in Hollywood are Perverts

The Gnostics in Hollywood are Perverts

Existence Strikes Back Part IV explores flourishing in our postmodern, left-hemispheric, culturally-gnostic world. One of the ways to promote flourishing: avoid things that are culturally gnostic and left-hemispheric, like Hollywood.

Introductions to and Summaries of The Hemisphere Hypothesis

Introductions to and Summaries of The Hemisphere Hypothesis

By the Master Himself Resist the Machine Apocalypse | Iain McGilchristNo two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but . . . .First ThingsIain McGilchrist The Best The thing about things | The New CriterionJonathan Gaisman on The Thing With Things by Iain McGilchrist.Vol. 42, No.

I Loathe Bracketology: A Screed

I Loathe Bracketology: A Screed

For the Love of Dick Vitale’s Soul, Retire the Word “Bracketology”

How You Attend to the World Changes What You Find There

How You Attend to the World Changes What You Find There

And if you attend sloppily, what you'll find is slop Do you want to understand what you're thinking about? Then think as clearly about it as possible. Do you want to think clearly about something? Then think in clear terms. On the flip side, if you