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The full-court breakdown of Joe Rogan has begun. Neil Young started it when he demanded Spotify remove his music because Rogan permits a compelling COVID narrative to exist that violates the official narrative. The compelling COVID narrative is supposedly wrong and because we’re in a pandemic (which is waning, according to my most-recent issue of The Kiplinger Letter ), it’s dangerous. Because it’...

Synopsis: Owen Barfield wrote about the importance of pre-rational thought and language. It heavily influenced Tolkien’s work. Iain McGilchrist has written about the same thing in The Master and His Emissary and the importance of the brain’s right hemisphere. Complete show notes . 

Why do the spiritual masters unanimously seem to insist on that lame piece of advice: “Live in the present moment"? Episode Website

How to Break a Maniac

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Essences become meaningless in both a perfect and marred world.

I went to Las Vegas last week, spending four nights at the iconic Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas. I spent Tuesday evening walking from the Nugget to the Strat , where I surveyed Vegas from 100 stories high for two hours. The next morning, I covered five miles of downtown Las Vegas on foot, covering huge swaths of area. On Thursday, I walked the length of the Strip, clocking in over 32,000 ste...

Before creation, nothing existed. There was no matter, no energy, no desires, no images. God then created everything. As a result, everything that is, is from Him, and things have existence only in so far as they partake in the Creator, the source of all being. But when Adam sinned, he detached the world from God. He, in other words, detached the world from being. Through Adam, man lunged away fro...

Joseph Epstein is the best essayist alive. He’s urbane, funny, self-deprecating. He’s a fine stylist, and he’s remarkably well-read. I remember William F. Buckley marveling at Epstein’s erudition and wondering how Epstein could have so many anecdotes and references at his disposal. Coming from a guy of Buckley’s learning, that’s high praise. So it was with great interest that I turned to his essay...

The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?

“Let me tell you about COVID, the COVID vaccine, and Bitcoin.” If any person starts telling me about those things, I write them off. All three of those things are new and huge. As a result, they occupy a weird spot in the world of opinion: Everyone needs to have a stance on them and nobody’s stance is worth anything. It’s difficult to reconcile such a paradox, but here’s one way: Take your stance,...

Stoicism is, at bottom, all about silencing the mind . Dispassion in the face of things that otherwise arouse passion. Resignation in the face of things that disappoint. Indifference in the face of things that raise emotions. Mental silence. It’s a good trait, but human development didn’t stop with the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD, and neither did the development of Stoicism. Stoicism, you s...

Chuang-Tzu was not a Zen practitioner. He lived about 750 years before Bodhidharma and was the second greatest philosopher of the Tao (after Lao-Tzu). He was playful in his approach to the Tao, and it’s that playfulness that mixed with the seriousness of Buddhist metaphysics to create the Zen phenomenon. Chuang-Tzu was one of the greatest proponents of the Chinese concept of wu-wei : non-doing, no...

Reddit, GameStop, Stimulus, and Two Things to Do If You Want to Survive and Thrive in the Age of the Black Swan

Is Jack Dorsey looking for a social media Bitcoin model? 

Do you have a totalitarian impulse? Take the Diocletian Test. 

The philosophy of focusing on a slow and loving existence in the quiet now

First Segment: Modern conservative thought.  Second Segment: English history, 1649 to 1688.  Third Segment: Ranters and Other Freak Religious Groups in the 17th Century.  Fourth Segment: Lightning Segments.

2,000 years of history into 30 (35?) minutes. 

First Segment: Overview of English history until 1649.  Second Segment: Lightning Segments, with emphasis on Medium dot com.  Third Segment: Bars. The good and the bad. 

First Segment: Brief riff off Charles MacKay's 1841 book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and deplatforming in American history.  Second Segment Lightning Segments. Third Segment: The Reformation, with focus on the Radical Spiritualists.

This is the last episode in our attempt to help you establish an historical perspective. The focus: 1492 and three events: Moors kicked out of Spain, Columbus and the new world, Alexander VI. Lightning Segments: Bocephus, Casual Lawyers, J.D. Vance, Siege of Vienna.