Loyalty or Duty?
What is loyalty? Should we be as concerned with it as we are? Well, whether that’s a lot or a little, I invite you to think on these things, brethren.
Read MoreOn The Moral Advantages of a Free Press
It is not enough for a mode of disseminating information to be free from governmental oversight, or to be nearly completely unfettered by law; it must be inspired, if not wholly instructed by and reliant upon individuals of some intellectual and moral integrity.
Read MoreNew clothes for nonsense
I'm a fan of precise speech, and I believe that adages, terms, and philosophies which are merely a product of unexamined in-group/out-group biases, are quite, well...boring. William Zinsser is adamant about economizing speech wherever possible and reminds us to trim from our vocabulary words that aren't "doing any work," as he says.
Read MoreLimitations & Lamentations
Knowing one's limitations is important. Such knowledge, seemingly reserved for the introspective, was highly prized and sought after by all the great scholars. Socrates, Epictetus, Tom Petty, you know the ones. In any case, I have been interested in being interested all my life, and I think I need to take another approach to this time-honored search.
Read MoreIt's All a Literary Illusion
Bullshit always finds a way to rebrand, and in the current technocracy, the endlessly exploitable labor is coming from writers who need to make a living trying their best to satisfy the needs of their overlords. Content isn’t important, but clicks and views are the new currency, having replaced bundles bought at the magazine stand. If you saw the movie Nightcrawler, then hopefully you understand the commentary on freelance content producers being subject to dying news media peddlers.
Read MoreThe Doctrines and Doldrums of Technocrats
Limiting your interrogation of the world in which we live to those questions which can only be framed or contextualized by what you can see and hear, excludes a dimension of human experience which does not display itself to those senses
Read MoreThe Imposture of a Master Craftsman
The Master Craftsman Program is a series of voluntary educational modules administered by the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry , SJ, USA. The primary aim of this program is the spiritual and intellectual enrichment of the individual through concentrated study. There is no time limit for completion, and you get out what you put in to the endeavor.
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