Tao Teh Ching: A Short Meditation on Its Title and Its Importance
Introduction to an 81-Part Series
35,000-Word Tribute to The Matter with Things
I typically read the essays I post or link to, but I haven't read this one: "Beyond the Scientific Revolution: Ian McGilchrist's The Matter with Things."
But I might be forgiven.
It clocks in at 35,000 words.
And based on the first 2,
The Picture Book: Foe of the Left Hemisphere?
A Medieval Christmas
Dollar-for-word, this book is a terrible deal. It's 28 pages long and, except for a short appendix, every word is merely a paste job from the 2003 Revised Standard Edition (Catholic Edition) of the Bible.
And the book costs $44!
These publishers oughtta be locked
Paradox, The Hemispheres, and the Tao
A basic tension mars the intellectual framework of the spiritual life.
Pole 1: The first virtue of the spiritual life is humility, and humility is first and foremost selflessness.
Pole 2: We cannot be so selfless that we don't desire our own happiness.
“The rational creature . . . cannot wish
Paul Kingsnorth on the Collapse of the Left Hemisphere's Reign and the (Hopeful) Rise of the Tao
The global Machine is teetering, even as it clamps down on its citizenry in an attempt to tamp down unrest and rein in its own wanton destruction of creation and culture. A way of seeing that sets itself against what C. S. Lewis happily characterized as the Tao—the way
Iain McGilchrist Interview on Russell Brand's Stay Free: A Few Highlights
I listened to Russell Brand's Stay Free yesterday. I came because he was interviewing Iain McGilchrist. I stayed because Brand is smart (I always figured he was a clown), fast, and funny. I've only listened to the McGilchrist but I'm getting a Rumble account
Artificial Intelligence Has No Right Hemisphere: Video
Libertarians and the Left (Hemisphere)
Brad Birzer reviews a new book about major figures in the libertarian tradition. Needless to say, I now want to buy it, but I'm holding back.
I had a drink with one of Birzer's friends a few weeks ago. I think he's probably less
Live Like Hobbits
That's apparently the advice in a new book, "The Reactionary Mind," by Michael Warren Davis.
It seems to me that Foucault's "counter-conduct" is becoming the number one obsession today, at least among people who think about . . . or at least feel . . . the left-hemisphere&
You're Getting Played, but That's Alright
From last Saturday's "Outside the Modern Limits"