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Friday, August 30, 2013

Progressives: Parasites on Progress

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Insufficient time for a fully loaded post, but maybe enough to nibble at the margins of George Gilder's Knowledge and Power , which is a...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Tending to Your Own Isness in the Present Tense

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There is only one method: to be intelligent . --Voegelin Just a few more items to cover in Voegelin's massive missives before moving...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Reality and its Alternatives, Philosophy and its Apes

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If one thinks and lives philosophically -- as in seeking after and loving Wisdom -- then the world -- the human world -- is indeed a strange...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Sniffing Out God

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We're still trying to figure out why religion, which once spoke to everyone in a direct and intimate way, no longer does so, at least in...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Bob's Weekend Acid Trip

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In a letter, Voegelin speaks of how "metaphysical concepts are symbols which only make sense as the terminal points of the existential...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Man is a Miracle of Evolution (and Evolution is a Miracle of Man)

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Humans, in the ironic words of Schuon, are condemned to transcendence, so we can't really escape it short of being comatose. Indeed, ...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

There is No God, and He is Obama

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First, we bring your attention to a nice rant by Ace of Spades , which relates to all the Voegeling we've been doing around here lately:...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Ideological "Reality" and the Immortalizing Process

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Not much time this morning. Just flipping through this volume of correspondence by Voegelin, looking for any nuggets of joy before it unde...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Breaking News From Eternity!

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I don't think I want to plunge fully back into O -- i.e., excogitate something completely new -- until the liberatoreum has been reconst...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Dear Prudence, Won't You Change Your Name?

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No time for a new post, and barely enough time for this repost of a post that originally appeared out of gnowhere -- which is where all the ...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

All Politics is Nonlocal

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I'm guessing Tip O'Neill -- Chris Matthews' mentor, proving that the road apple doesn't fall far from the horse's ass --...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

On the Organ of Spiritual Perception

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I personally don't have an issue with the distinction between gnosis and Gnosticism, but since the question keeps coming up, perhaps we ...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Power Politics vs. Truth Politics: How to Tell a Clenched Fist from an Open Mind

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So, why all the Voegeling? Because in recent months I've raced through number of huge volumes of his, and if I don't write about th...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

The High Cost of Divorce from Reality

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A post or two ago we mentioned Plato's allegory of the cave. It seems to me that Voegelin is one of the few contemporary scholars who f...
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Thursday, August 08, 2013

Leftism: An Autoimmune Disorder of Language

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The goal of education should be... reality , right? If not that, then what? Fantasy? Obedience? Wish fulfillment? Power? In his Au...
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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

What has Two Legs and Slithers on its Ideology?

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Better yet, what do you call a tenured hack chained to the bottom of the sea? A good start . That dark yoke is in reference to yesterd...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Trained Beasts and the Modern Multiversity

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When I think of the tenured, I think of pomposity and vacuity; or pretentiousness and absurdity. Nor am I alone in so thinking. For examp...
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