Bart: Sharing is a bunch of bull, too. And helping others. And what's all this crap I've been hearing about tolerance? Homer: Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. But I think we have to go to the retreat anyway.
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The Believer: A Literary Celebration presented by The Believer magazine, with Ted Gioia
Ron DeSantis Targets Drag Queens In Effort To Control the Content of Libraries And If You Think It’s Any Other Reason You’re a Fucking Moron
The far right has attacked 'Drag Queen Story Hour' an event at some public libraries where people in drag read to kids. Now DeSantis is trying to control Florida businesses which feature drag. The veil is that he is protecting children and that drag is 'immoral'. What he wants is to control libraries, police businesses, … Continue reading Ron DeSantis Targets Drag Queens In Effort To Control the Content of Libraries And If You Think It’s Any Other Reason You’re a Fucking Moron
Social Media Maintains Minimal Protections for Minorities, While Libraries & Schools Face Book Burning History Murdering Pogroms – Why Censorship Today Seems Capricious
The internet is not a book. If one has an argument against certain people's activities, one may write a rational argument and is free to publish their argument. This is not the same as being a public figure writing tweets about doctors being criminals for performing consensual treatments affirming gender identity, as Jordan Peterson recently … Continue reading Social Media Maintains Minimal Protections for Minorities, While Libraries & Schools Face Book Burning History Murdering Pogroms – Why Censorship Today Seems Capricious
Fluent With Sweat In the Midnite IHOP Booth, Contemplating Tongues Forcing Into My Very Mouth (ReVisiting William Gass on Writing in the Paris Review: “I STILL HATE SCENES UNLESS I MAKE THEM”
Well it is the season of the witch.. So I am picking up stitches. So it goes. Chasing leads with the writers group and earnestly tracking back a remembered line from a 'Why I Write' books of essays search a few years back. Stuck with me. "I write because I hate. A lot. Hard." And … Continue reading Fluent With Sweat In the Midnite IHOP Booth, Contemplating Tongues Forcing Into My Very Mouth (ReVisiting William Gass on Writing in the Paris Review: “I STILL HATE SCENES UNLESS I MAKE THEM”
Russia Is Falling Into a Living 1984 Situation – And Some (Many? Even in the Center?) in the Right Wing Supports this Outcome For America
from a guy I just followed on youtube: Dark Dan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HScgaXp7KGw My response: Good vid! When you said Putin put himself in checkmate because their setup of pushing lies even fooled their leadership - and Putin. Trump has the same issue with thinking he is right about everything and wanting to surround himself with only … Continue reading Russia Is Falling Into a Living 1984 Situation – And Some (Many? Even in the Center?) in the Right Wing Supports this Outcome For America
The Sun Also Rises going into public domain so I can legally say this: You are all a lost generation.
Ernest Hemingway's novel 'The Sun Also Rises' has just gone into the public domain with this batch of copyright-expired works this New Year. One of the few Hemingway books I've read... it opens with a quote Gertrude Stein imparted on Hemingway in conversation, "You are all a lost generation." Which became a shorthand name for … Continue reading The Sun Also Rises going into public domain so I can legally say this: You are all a lost generation.
A Repeated Lie, Told Often Enough, Becomes The Liar’s Truth.
The Following is an Excerpt from Albert Camus's Novel 'THE FALL' The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and … Continue reading A Repeated Lie, Told Often Enough, Becomes The Liar’s Truth.
If You Like the Occult, Esoteric, or Philosophy in the 21st Century, You Should Be Following Gary Lachman
https://garylachman.co.uk/ Gary Lachman has written a number of books on philosophy, esotericism, and the occult, including biographies on Colin Wilson, Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Madame Blavatsky, Swedenborg, as well as the great historical overviews 'A Dark Muse' and 'Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties & the Dark Side of the Age of … Continue reading If You Like the Occult, Esoteric, or Philosophy in the 21st Century, You Should Be Following Gary Lachman
The Roots of Romanticism – Lecture Series and Book – by Isaiah Berlin – (Lectures Linked)
The Roots of Romanticismby Isaiah Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dhLq2G0FcM&list=PLBHxLhKiPKxBjK6Udz8i0QTlFZAXKzTtF Philosophy OverdoseThis is the first of six lectures given by Isaiah Berlin on Romanticism. In these lectures, delivered at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art in 1965, acclaimed historian of philosophy Isaiah Berlin addresses the origins of what he deems "the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the … Continue reading The Roots of Romanticism – Lecture Series and Book – by Isaiah Berlin – (Lectures Linked)
The Haunted Typewriter 