The Battle Between Macroculture and Microculture Is Turning into a War
Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker
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Parliament Created the Great London Gin Craze
“[N]oe sort of Brandy Aqua vite or other Spirits or distilled Waters of any Kingdome Country or place whatsoever shall after the said foure and twentyeth day of August be imported into the Kingdoms of England or Ireland . . .”.
If you read the Wikipedia entries about England’s Great Gin
The Difference between "Reason" and "Rationality"
Reason
Greek nous
Latin intellectus
Reason is flexible. It resists fixed formulation. It is shaped by experience. It involves the whole living being, combining the mental and physical . . . the spiritual and material. It is the intellectual glue of sacramental existence. It is characterized by intuition.
Reason is "congenial to
How to Make a Cocktail
Start by approaching it with your right hemisphere
How Have These Ten Extensions Changed Us?
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
Perhaps the biggest difference between childhood and adulthood is time. The adult frantically looks for more time. The child looks for ways to fill time.
I filled a lot
Is New Year's Eve Still the King of Alcohol?
New Year’s Eve is dead.
It’s not the biggest bar night of the year. It’s not even the biggest drinking night in general.
I base those claims on a (very scientific and statistical) review of the facts.
First, I spent four minutes on internet searches, which brought
Absinthe Minded
Barnaby Conrad III at the New Criterion
Zero Hedge: Decent Prose?
Robert Kiyosaki supposedly once counseled a new "creator" about the perils of good writing: "It's 'bestselling author,' not 'best-written author.'" His point: If you want to be successful online, you need to write for sales, not art. He's
Don't Let Your Left Hemisphere Ruin Christmas
"I wouldn’t upset my plan for anything. I’d rather upset life than the plan." The Anonymous Schoizoid
The left hemisphere doesn't live. It thinks.
It plans: "How to do this?" "How to tackle that?"
The best way to develop a
The Age of Avengers
Jesse Russell at VoegelinView