Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Humans are meant to do hard things

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In my professional life I serve a profession called medical coding. No need to look it up; it’s quite niche and rather impenetrable to the o...
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Monday, March 4, 2024

Our modern problems with reading

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We don’t have infinite time. The amount of reading attention any new book must compete with is getting progressively smaller. So we have to ...
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Saturday, May 13, 2023

"All truth is relative" is not true

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“All truth is relative.” This comment was posted on a message board I frequent, in a conversation in which I was a part, and the person who ...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Railing against AI art

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I hate computer generated art* and worry very deeply about what a future dominated by artificial intelligence will look like. Both for artis...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Raging against Twitter and the dying of the written word

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“Does anyone go sit down and read an entire blog post anymore? Most people aren’t going to go read an entire 500 word blog.” These sentences...
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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Truth

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I’m almost 50 and still don’t really know who I am, and at turns, what the fuck I’m doing. Outwardly I’m successful. Married. Two children. ...
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Saturday, October 15, 2022

Why bother blogging? And other personal updates

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Why? Why do I continue to keep this blog? I’ve been doing this a long time, since Sept. 2007, save for a long break circa 2013-2019 to write...
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Thursday, October 6, 2022

Secret Fire

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What is the “fire” borne by characters and otherwise present in the works of Cormac McCarthy and J.R.R. Tolkien? “I am a servant of the Secr...
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Sunday, May 8, 2022

Reading Plato, some observations

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Confession: I’ve got gaps in my philosophy, Horatio. I have a basic familiarity with the broad tenets of some of the major schools. I have r...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

“Unshaken on his rocky throne above the bleak fjords”: A review of H. Rider Haggard’s Eric Brighteyes

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The default setting for most fantasy is a faux late-Middle Ages, generally ascribed to the period from the Norman conquest of 1066 to roughl...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: The Book of Merlyn and its Howardian connection

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A good man’s example always does instruct the ignorant and lessens their rage, little by little through the ages, until the spirit of the wa...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Reading fantasy for escape's sake

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Perhaps it’s because I’m a simple man compared to China Mieville (or perhaps it’s because I’m not as passionate about politics as he), but I...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Of Wolf Larsen and embracing the Howardian hero

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“He led a lost cause, and he was not afraid of God’s thunderbolts,” Wolf Larsen was saying. “Hurled into hell, he was unbeaten. A third of ...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

The key to the gate of dreams

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Someone asked me the other day why I named my particular bit of cyberspace "The Silver Key." As you can see from the quote at the ...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Why Tolkien is the man

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"Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and...
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