Frontier Cities: “Like many other moments in American history, we find ourselves at the advent of a technological innovation era that has the potential to significantly increase human freedom. We must grasp it. America must, as it has for centuries, set out toward that goal. We don’t need to colonize Mars, we don’t need new…
Month: July 2024
TUESDAY LINKS: Horticulture of the Heavens; the Wallpaper in Your Mind; the Consequences of Desire
Apologetics for Philosophy: “…getting in touch with this archive of greatness will put you in touch with practices and insights that in turn put you back in touch with reality, with being, in new, old, and timeless ways. And they do so in a way that lets us glean what reality is in a deeper sense.”…
Money, Ever-Living Fire, and the Way of Angels
cross-posted here Maverick has a great piece at Man’s World Online examining cryptocurrency’s role in the evolution of money and its potential to concretize abstract ideas about freedom and truth. He looks at the work of classicist Richard Seaford along with Costin Alamariu to map the links between coinage and philosophy. “The pre-Socratics and the Socratics inherited a thoroughly…
The Dharma of Aquatic Speed
cross-posted here The rush of going fast on water is a celebration of the pure joy and freedom of living boldly — Unknown Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death — HST Speed is the ultimate modern experience — Ballard The world of speed is the world of the absolute,…
TUESDAY LINKS: Gladiators and Slaves; Synchromysticism; Hell or High Water
All the World is a Myth: “We are still living in the Roman Empire…There is still a Colosseum and a Circus Maximus. There are still gladiators and slaves, there are still heroes and tyrants, and how exactly are we to know the difference?” Approach That Which Could Destroy You: “You have to approach that which…