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Existence Strikes Back Part IV

How do I get the Tao back into my life? This part could also be called, “How to flourish in modernity despite modernity.” It features a lot of advice for re-asserting one’s right hemisphere (our modem for the Tao and, therefore, “ground zero” for our fight against modernity).

Maybe We Should Thank the Buddhists for Mindfulness Meditation

Maybe We Should Thank the Buddhists for Mindfulness Meditation

Catholics keep flogging their tired old nag of a gripe about mindfulness meditation, even though heavyweights like Peter Kreeft and Kevin Majeres have given it their thumbs-up. Their big beef? “The Buddhists kicked it off!” Cue the pearl-clutching and incense-waving, as if that’s a knockout punch. It’s the

Gen-Z Needs Community Gardens

Gen-Z Needs Community Gardens

It’s dang near Chinese coolie labor time again, that grand American spectacle where hordes of lunatics, armed with shovels, hoes, and a rabid gleam in their eyes, descend upon their garden patches like it’s a sacred calling. Think of it as the nation’s biggest hobby—a manic,

How to Use the Cold Weather

How to Use the Cold Weather

I woke up yesterday morning to the gales of November, the same that brought down the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, according to meteorologists who said the atmospheric mix that dumped a few inches on my town is the same that brought down the mighty freighter. I could hear a collective

Satire Can Save Us

Satire Can Save Us

This was previously published as an "Outside the Modern Limits" newsletter. I normally don't send them again as a Substack newsletter, but I did this time because I edited almost every sentence and added a bunch of footnotes. It's the same product, but entirely

Counter-Conduct and Flourishing are the Same Things Except They're Not

Counter-Conduct and Flourishing are the Same Things Except They're Not

Modernity is left-hemispheric. It has led to a culture of left hemisphere presumptions, conditions, and conclusions. As a result, it has led to a population of people with atrophied right hemispheres. Each of us has an obligation to reinvigorate our right hemispheres. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it

Pinball is of the Body: Why Modern Tech Can't Recreate the World Under Glass

Pinball is of the Body: Why Modern Tech Can't Recreate the World Under Glass

Rae Hodge at Slate

Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase, by Arthur Quinn

Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase, by Arthur Quinn

You're Getting Played, but That's Alright

You're Getting Played, but That's Alright

From last Saturday's "Outside the Modern Limits"

The Gnostics in Hollywood are Perverts

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.

Postmodernist Pinball Wizards

Postmodernist Pinball Wizards

"He Stands Like a Statue/Becomes Part of the Machine" That lyric from The Who's righteous (if overplayed) song summarizes the point of this very good piece at Salon. It's not often you see TDE post an essay from that leftist e-rag, but it&