Is the New Left the Old Occult?
The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?
The World of Meditation is Here
Get ready for “Six-Minute Hesychasm” and “How to Get as Mentally Jacked as Jack Kornfield”
Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Have a Right Hemisphere
Language is the prime material of logical constructions. Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction (1928)
Large language models are trained on human data from the Internet. Lex Fridman, #370, Edward Frenkel (37:30)
"AI Might Eliminate Us, but It Can't Replace Us." Anonymous
How to Brand Yourself Today
Pick Four Traits. One of Them Must be “Victim”
Machiavelli Would've Used the N' Word (if It Would've Advanced the Prince)
Machiavelli was probably the first person to advocate a rationalist system in contradiction to irrationalist norms.
How Do We Account for Thomas Merton?
Thomas Merton started as a writer, became a Trappist monk with genuine insight into the spiritual life, and then wrapped himself in worldly activism. What happened?
Neil Young Never Hated the Man
He just hated THAT man
Montaigne: The Godfather of 4Chan?
💡Montaigne was the godfather of modern skepticism. His was a “negative skepticism,” which disturbed Descartes enough to prompt him to come up with a positive response, which in turn gave us modernity, its fierce subjectivism, and the parade of “little gods” that have marred the last 200+ years.
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Why David Hume is Important
💡Within 100 years, the Cartesians used impeccable logic derived from Descartes' I think there I am to reach two conclusions: there is no earthly agent of movement and there is no matter. There is only God and mind. Hume yanked God and mind out of these conclusions and the
150 Years that Shook Europe
The years 1309 through 1453 made Europe redefine itself.