Bring on the Raw, Unverbalized
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Iain McGilchrist
A collection of 11 issues
AI Can Build Great Things, but They're Inherently Fake and Crappy
Attraction to older women, square circles, halls of mirrors, Sam Kriss (Essay)
The Third Way Fever
This modern world’s got a fever, and it ain’t for more cowbell.
It’s for third alternatives.
Everybody’s itching for that elusive other option, like it’s the last ticket out of a burning city. Ray Oldenburg lit a fuse back in ’89 with The Great Good
More Snoring, Less Beltway Whoring
The Hemisphere Hypothesis won’t teach you how to wrench a lug nut off a busted tire and it won’t tell you how to deal with the beard in your daughter’s locker room. For all its highfalutin talk about brain wiring and reality, it’s about as useful
Gimme Silence or Give Me Death
Because without silence, there is no life
McGilchrist Finds Gnosticism . . . and the Thought of Eric Voegelin
I've maintained for years that these two thinkers needed to get together. It finally happened.
First Things' Feature Essay: Resist the Machine Apocalypse
The March 2024 issue of First Things arrived Tuesday. The feature essay: Iain McGilchrist, "Resist the Machine Apocalypse."
It's great.
But it's not online yet. When it is, I'll post an excerpt and a link to the full essay, but I suspect
Iain McGilchrist, Per Chat GBT
It looks pretty accurate to me
Hand Me a Gallon of that Vodka and Mountain Dew
Here’s something obvious that I never brought to the surface of full consciousness: a cocktail must, you know, taste like alcohol:
A cocktail “must have sufficient alcoholic flavor.” Even the simplest of cocktails like a vermouth cassis must taste of alcohol. If you don’t like the taste of
How to Kill the Tao
The left hemisphere gets things done. The Tao isn’t concerned about getting things done. Let your left hemisphere dominate: you’ll never be bothered by the Tao again.