Tag: philosophy
The Burden of Insight
As my mother, a counselor and clinical social worker of 30+ years, often notes: Most people are not burdened with insight. I love that observation and have quoted it often, but of course it’s a […]
The Shape of the Universe
The model described in this article — the “Big Bounce” instead of the Big Bang — is potentially a big deal. Quanta Magazine: Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang This new simulation is merely […]
Carnival of Loss
Much of the media we consume is self-consciously mythic, which doesn’t necessarily mean it has swords and wizards, although obviously some of it does. It means it fills the role of myth. Back before culture […]
(Curiosity) Holy Crayola!: Modern History in Crayon
World historians typically divide the previous two centuries into the “Long Nineteenth Century,” stretching from the French Revolution (1789) to the First World War/Russian Revolution (1917), and the “Short Twentieth Century,” running from the inter-war […]
Excellence is brittle
I was near 30 before I realized there are (for simplicity’s sake) three levels of discussion. The first is emotional. Anything goes, including logic if it gets the arguer closer to their goal, which is […]
(Curiosity) A Short History of Decay
With how many illusions must I have been born in order to be able to lose one every day! E.M. Cioran was a Romanian thinker who spent most of his life in France. This week, […]
(Fiction) Borges’ The Theologians
I’m not in the habit of interpreting literature for others. As a rule, I can only mislead — or else rob you of a moment of profound insight. However, only very bad rules have no […]
