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.
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The Shire: Land of the Tao . . . and of Solid Right Hemispheres
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 57
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
Beyond the Scientific Revolution: Ian McGilchrist’s “The Matter With Things”
Richard Cocks at VoegelinView
No Woom for Wu? You Have Pwoblems
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 3
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 find yourself on
The Hemisphere Hypothesis and Existence Strikes Back: Summary with Audio
Modernity: Political religions and powerful elites allied in their exclusive reliance on the left hemisphere. Their intuitive goal: To kill the Tao and repress the right hemisphere altogether. But the right hemisphere and Tao intuitively keep fighting back.
In Praise and Condemnation of Dogma
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 2
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
Now look at modern culture's tendency to disconnect from The Reality Spectrum.