Economic Freedom is the First Freedom
Because it deals with the things we require first
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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
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?
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
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.
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.
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
Localism and the Importance of Laboratories
If localities have self-determination, it results in a country full of mini-laboratories where we can figure out what works and what doesn't.
Granted, in the localities that practice oppression and hatred, things will be miserable, but at least people can leave. If enough people leave, the
Fine Prose or Trashy Prose: Is There No Third Way?
I want to encourage young writers, even if it is a poor man’s game.
[I]f you want to write well and live well at the same time, you’d better arrange to inherit money or marry a stockbroker or a rich woman who can operate a typewriter. Flannery
Aristotle to Aquinas to Pieper: Leisure Solves Nothing. That's What Makes it Counter-Conduct
In the tradition that runs from Aristotle through Aquinas to Josef Pieper, leisure is not a solution to anything, but an alternative way of being in the world. In Pieper’s formulation, leisure “runs at right angles” to the practical pursuits of work and achievement.
Leisure and Liberality | Elizabeth C.