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Flourishing Despite Modernity
Full Spectrum of Reality
Modernity's Rise
Modernity's Decline
Here's Why We Shouldn't Judge
Analyze and consider. Organize and weigh. But rarely judge.
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Read Your Way Out of Mental Thralldom
The left hemisphere is always doing. Make it stop with recreational reading. 15 minutes in the morning and 15 in the evening.
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Reactivating Our Right Hemispheres
An essay I published earlier this year at (most-righteous) Front Porch Republic
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David Foster Wallace, the Monk, and the Bridge Option
Also introducing the Holy Fool, Hume, and Punic Options
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Satire Can Save Us from the Left Hemisphere's Tyranny
Moderns Latch onto Abstractions with a G.I. Joe Kung Fu Grip. It's a Breeding Ground for Satire.
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September 2024

We're All Schizophrenic Winos
"I don’t know how to feel – everything has to go through my brain." The Anonymous Schizoid
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Eric Scheske
Urban Gardens: Font of Hopefulness
I have a client in Detroit who keeps a small stash of money at his son's house, along with a few guns, in a rural farming community on the west side of…
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How to Force Your Brain Hemispheres to Work Together
Reframing is One Way of Doing It
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August 2024

Modern Life is Orc Life
Slay your inner-orc: act like an elf
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Seeing More Clearly in the Dark
Thomas de Quincey ate and drank a lot of opium.
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Breaking Through to the Other Side
Iain McGilchrist is Explaining What Aldous Huxley was Trying to Experience
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June 2024

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