How I Read Now
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The Integrity of Poetry
Micah Mattix at First Things
Our Need for Self-Knowledge
One of man's deepest needs is the need for identity. We need to know who we are; we need to exist in our own eyes and other people's. That need for identity is so strong that it can lead to aberrations [an over-active left hemisphere
Optimal Work on Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture
One Hundred Years of Platitudes
Giles Fraser at UnHerd
No Woom for Wu? You Have Pwoblems
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 3
LARPing, Reality, and Fraud
This nascent essay needs work, but it's a decent blog post.
The essay could take a few directions.
E.g., Fantasy role-playing is fun, but now take your character into the real world. You're Kick-Ass, coming to beat that inner-city thug, only to
Vaya con Dios: Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
Casey Spinks at Front Porch Republic
The Hemisphere Hypothesis and Existence Strikes Back: Summary with Audio
Modernity: Political religions and powerful elites allied in their exclusive reliance on the left hemisphere. Their intuitive goal: To kill the Tao and repress the right hemisphere altogether. But the right hemisphere and Tao intuitively keep fighting back.
BYCU
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