Category Archives: philosophy

Our Culture of Sociopathy: History Will Not Be Kind to Us

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2025 Guide To Intelligent Interraction in a Morally and Intellectually Challenged Society: Lessons #1 and 2

Reading is a means of listening. Reading is not as passive as hearing or viewing. It’s an act: you do it. You read at your pace, your own speed, not the ceaseless, incoherent, gabbling, shouting rush of the media. You … Continue reading

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Seeing the Music in the Makers #16

If you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it , build a house. “Well, I was lost, but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament !” Mitch Hedburg Find Your Place and Leave Space for Others … Continue reading

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Of the Fall and Falling and the Fallen

If we can travel with our eyes wide open in the searing wind and churning flood of human activity, we can at times glimpse hopeful and useful signs as they bubble up from the chaos, but only if we can … Continue reading

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Attention + Focus + Time = Enchanted Awareness

“Tree” It is foolishto let a young redwoodgrow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime,you will have to choose. That great calm being,this clutter of soup pots and books– Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.Softly, calmly, immensity … Continue reading

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