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Zen in Brief

When Mahayana Buddhism traveled east out of India and into China, it mingled with Taoism. The offspring: Zen. Like all Buddhism, its ontology (i.e., its theory of what constitutes fundamental reality) is steeped in pantheistic monism. This means that the Buddhist believes all things are one. The same spirit

We're All Schizophrenic Winos

Surviving the Metaverse

By Mary Harrington at First Things

Dalrymple on the WNBA

Anthony Daniels aims at three of my favorite targets: (1) The relentless propaganda to push the WNBA on the populace (but in Daniels' case, he marvels at the propaganda to push female soccer in Europe), (2) tattoo culture, and (3) ugly buildings ("brutalism"). Underlying these three seemingly

Why We Judge. And Why We Need to Stop

It's a left-hemisphere activity where the left hemisphere often doesn't belong

Rabelais

One of my favorite writers, Albert Jay Nock, was a huge Rabelais fan. He wrote two books about him. From the first: It must be laid down once and for all, that the chief purpose of reading a classic like Rabelais is to prop and stay the spirit, especially in

When Gods Fight, Men Die

It is important for us to realize that mankind is doomed to live more and more under the spell of a new scientific, social, and political mythology, unless we resolutely exorcise these befuddled notions whose influence on modern life is becoming appalling. Millions of men are starving or bleeding to

Bertrand Russell Summarizes the Left Hemisphere

Science is "power-knowledge"

The Aristocracy Is Eating the Peasants

By John Rubino at Substack

Doomers May Have One Point: Food Production

Every inch of me resists the doom-and-gloomers. I think it's because I get the sense that this syllogism drives them: doomers are serious. Serious people should rule. Therefore, doomers should rule. At the very least, doomers think they should tell other people what to do. Doomers, after all,