Eric Scheske

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Gnosticism

Gnosticism

Gnosticism starts with a fundamentally flawed view of reality. Ancient gnosticism rejected the immanent (earthly) realm of reality. Modern gnosticism rejects the transcendent realm and, with it, the Tao. Eric Voegelin did the most among all philosophers to raise the alarm about gnosticism and its perennial quality. There has almost always been a gnostic element of society, and it has always been a problem, and it's a huge problem today because modern culture is culturally gnostic.

Middlebrow Writing

Middlebrow Writing

There used to be writing that was "middlebrow." You'd find it in urbane and smart publications that were lower than academia and fine writing (highbrow) and higher than sports columnists and dimestore novels (lowbrow). It was always a limited market. When Henry Fowler self-published his own

Private Tyrants, Public Remedies: A Review of Sohrab Ahmari’s Tyranny, Inc.

Private Tyrants, Public Remedies: A Review of Sohrab Ahmari’s Tyranny, Inc.

Philip Bunn at Front Porch Republic

What de Lubac Would Think About the Synod on Synodality

What de Lubac Would Think About the Synod on Synodality

Robert Imbelli at First Things

The Puritan Spirit of America's Civil War

The Puritan Spirit of America's Civil War

David Samuels at UnHerd

Resistance to the Gnostics and Their Left Hemispheres. Click Here to See the Main Projects that Develop These Themes.

Resistance to the Gnostics and Their Left Hemispheres. Click Here to See the Main Projects that Develop These Themes.

Existence Strikes Back, The Hemisphere Hypothesis, Counter-Conduct, Flourishing, the Tao, and Gnosticism

The Self-Destructive Effects of Progressive Sadness

The Self-Destructive Effects of Progressive Sadness

David Brooks at the New York Times

Leftists Trying Not to be Gnostics

Leftists Trying Not to be Gnostics

Current Affairs seems like a worthwhile magazine. It describes itself as "the left magazine for people skeptical of leftism." Based on this essay, it seems pretty far left . . . Bernie Sanders-left . . . but intellectually honest left. In the perspective of the Hemisphere Hypothesis, an "intellectually honest" leftist is

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.

Why We are Culturally Gnostic

Why We are Culturally Gnostic

I'd re-title David Brooks' recent op-ed about progressive sadness, "The Gnostification of America." He touches on four of Voegelin's six gnostic traits (and the other two are also present, but op-eds need to be short), starting with discontent. He points out that liberals

Gnosticism in Modernity, or Why History Refuses to End

Isaac Ariail Reed and Michael Weinman at The Hedgehog Review