I am as Cassandra, and it pains me. I know what is wrong with Western Civilization, at the root, and how to fix it so it will never need fixing again. So much good does this do me – or anyone else, for that matter. Instead we are here, agog as the world we thought […]
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Thomas Hawk / Foter.com / CC BY-NC How do you know when a time is right for your idea? How about when someone else comes up with something similar?: Atheist ‘mega-churches’ take root across USA, world. For the past three months, I’ve been thinking about starting a church evangelizing egoism and excluding no one, and […]
Everything is all one thing, so this is a video essay about art about music about morality about song-writing about marriage about redemption – simple stuff. This is egoism in action, me being me. This video connects directly to the argument I made on Friday about ‘conservative’ art, and all of everything I am saying […]
A while back, I wrote a post on BloodhoundBlog about using pocket-sized video cameras to record and propagate video testimonials. That kind of job is now better done by smartphone video cameras, but you can still buy a Flip camera if you have money burning a hole in your pocket. (But, if that really is […]
I love Walmart. I am very happy to call myself a member of the middle class, and I take huge delight in cruising the aisles at Walmart, scoping out all the incredible deals. I don’t buy a lot of stuff, though. Away from TechToyz, I lead a pretty Spartan existence. But I love to see […]
I don’t go to your church. I’ve taken to saying that when I run up against some testy quibble based in some arcane branch of human knowledge I care nothing about. I don’t go to your church. I don’t shop at your store. I don’t trade in your currency. I’ve spent a big chunk of […]
My novel The Unfallen is now available as an Amazon Kindle eBook. Here is the way I blurbed the book when I wrote it: The Unfallen is a very sexy book about philosophy and a very philosophical book about love and longing. It’s written about and for smart, productive people who live to love their […]
A couple weeks ago we got together with an old friend whom we had not seen in some while. She made a huge point of remarking that my appearance had not changed at all, which I dismissed as a kindly untruth, sweet but surely very far from being accurate. It turns out she was closer […]
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 10. A mindful catalog of mindlessness. I like to play a philosophy game I call Backstory. I will look at someone – anyone I happen to see – and try to project backward in time to the past causes of that person’s […]
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 5. The greatest love of all. What’s the purpose of life? Scruffy, bearded teenagers of all ages have been asking that question for thousands of years, and each one of them has come up with an answer even more ludicrous than the […]
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 3. Speaking in tongues. One of the things that protects humanity from all of the philosophers and academics who insist that we are nothing special is the power of speech. Not speech deployed to argue against them; for the most part we […]
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 2. The nature of your nature. The general form of the specious appeal – this seems to have certain traits in common with that, therefore this is that – is a comically obvious error when you state it plainly. The people who […]
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 1. You’re in this all alone. Each individual human being is his own first and best philosopher, like it or don’t, for this simple reason: You are not born knowing how to stay alive, and, absent some sort of cosmic-injustice machine like […]
I just traded two weeks of my life for the rest of human history. That’s what it feels like. It’s funny even to me to live at that level of hubris! I’ve always been able to work very hard when I need to, and I’ve always loved the way I feel when I finish: It’s […]
We had mail server issues today, and I had to update some stuff on Cathleen’s Macintosh. She uses Stickies, and this was the note at the top of her screen: There ain’t nothin’ like sweet romance…