Look at all those people playing at life.
Be careful my friend, life is not a game.
It’s about being worthy.
And don’t fool yourself, you’ve got only one…
Life is not a game my friend.
It’s the art of …
Veganism and the Covid Panic
Lierre Keith’s book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability describes her failed pursuit of a pure vegan diet. Published in 2009, Keith’s story parallels our recent Covid panic. Both veganism and Covidism are echoes of the ancient Greek philosophy …
We No Longer Ponder the Good Life
Last night I went out with friends and had a wonderful conversation about what constitutes the “Good Life.” This came on the heels of a marathon discussion, a few days earlier, with my three adult children and several of their …
More on Time Theft
We live in a four-dimensional world. I work with binocular vision and one of the goals in much of the therapy we do involves establishing the ability to appreciate motion in three of those dimensions, and to sustain that in …
All Warfare Is Based on Deception
I have alluded to the ancient Chinese thinker, Sun Tzu’s treatise on The Art of War before, but have not illustrated at some length how his most famous saying (no. 18 of the section, Laying Plans, in the treatise) – …
Herd or Hero, Body or ‘Soul’
Along the high street where I live, there is an advertisement on the side of one of the bus shelters. It features a woman, heavy-set and pictured from behind. The text reads Get Your and then On Board, placed so …
Toward an Archaeology of Anger
Last week, Brownstone Journal published an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment, titled: Our Last Innocent Moment: Angry Forever?
In this piece Ponesse treats, in a refreshingly well-rounded and down-to-earth way, the complex subject of anger. Few …
The Post-Ideological Age
Conventional wisdom has it that the US and much of the Western world has polarized into right and left. These tribes are hard-core and share mutual loathing. That model of understanding pervades all popular media and consumes the culture, such …
The Man Who Brought Socrates to the Military
Last week when I read of Brigadier General (ret) Malham Wakin’s death, his name sounded familiar. As a newly arrived cadet at the Air Force Academy in 1968, the head of the Department of Philosophy, a colonel in his mid-30s, …
Linear Time and the Art of Staying Human
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Thomas Harrington’s book, Treason of the Experts: Covid and the Credentialed Class.
Many, if not most, who question the approach that has been taken to controlling Covid are mystified, when they are not …
Throne and Altar: Delusional Messianic Expectations
Poorly formed expectations are premeditated resentments.
This piece of wisdom occurred to me recently while reflecting on the beginning of the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Our Lord performs the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish as …
Why the Left hates MAGA Communism
I wanted to love MAGA Communism. When the movement emerged on X in 2022, it ruffled all the right feathers. It sought to meet working-class people where they were, channelling their frustrations while simultaneously dismantling the Left-wing establishment.
Predictably, the …
We Reap the Harvest of Lies
Public life has become disorienting. Most people, by and large, previously expected to hear the truth, or some semblance of it, in daily life. We would generally expect this from each other, but also from public media and authorities such …
We Reap the Harvest of Lies
Public life has become disorienting. Most people, by and large, previously expected to hear the truth, or some semblance of it, in daily life. We would generally expect this from each other, but also from public media and authorities such …
History, Technology, and a Balanced Attitude
The current generation stands before a gigantic irony of history – at least if human history is considered, as it has been since the 19th century, as a history of development. It was not only the Romantic Movement’s interest in …