Trying to Figure Out How We Got Into These Rationalist Cocoons
And the cocoons' severe limitations
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A collection of 250 issues
Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase, by Arthur Quinn
Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I went on a crash GKC diet in my twenties. In addition to a score of Chesterton books, I read three biographies about the great man, plus his Autobiography.
But I realized earlier this month that I had never read the first biography, which was written by his friend, Maisie
The Rise of Satire
Have you heard of the Scriblerus Club? It was an authors’ club founded in London in 1714. It was known for its satiric bent. Jonathan Swift was a member.
Western culture had long enjoyed satire, but there was a great satiric revival right after Descartes. Satire became huge.
Can we
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
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
Eric Voegelin: Timeline Biographical Sketch
1901: Born in Cologne.
1910: Moved to Vienna.
1922: Received doctorate in political science from the University of Vienna. While there, he attended seminars by Ludwig von Mises and developed a lasting friendship with F.A. Hayek.
1922-1926: Studied at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford, Columbia, Harvard, and
A Micro History of the Holy Roman Empire
The HRE started when Charlemagne received the emperor crown from Pope Leo in 800 or when Otto got the crown from Pope John in 962. The HRE then went through twists and turns, up and downs, was controlled by the Hapsburg family starting in 1438, until it was dissolved under
The Metaphor: Transcendence-Tao-RH-LH
Our connection to reality is kind of like our connection to the Internet. The Internet Metaphor is marked in white.
Transcendence: Internet
Tao: Modem
Right Hemisphere: Router
Left Hemisphere: Devices that Let Us Enjoy the Internet
Note well: The diagram below is flawed when it shows "Words and Objects&