Atheists in Space: “[Oswald] Spengler believed that even as the 20th century began, all of the theoretical edifices constructed by the West to replace its old sacred order — which mainly manifested as political ideologies — had failed. Beginning in the 21st century, he predicted, the grandchildren of the revolutionaries and the rationalists, adrift in…
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A Second Round of Weekend Links: Wild Christianity, Ultraterrestrials, and Mercenary Farms
A Wild Christianity: “Anthony Bloom once wrote that the Desert Fathers and their kind retreated in order to seek an ‘ardent and active solitude’: “These men leave everything because they have understood that in torment, disorder and purely earthly seeking they will not find the answer to the problems of their contemporaries . . ….
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How David Bowie Used William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Method to Write His Unforgettable Lyrics: Bowie says, “if you put three or four dissociated ideas together and create awkward relationships with them, the unconscious intelligence that comes from those pairings is really quite startling sometimes, quite provocative.” Prudence in Hell 044: All models are wrong and…