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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,
Three Lesser-Known Figures in the Zen Tradition
All three emphasized the Tao side of Zen