Below are ways people deal with the problem with being a self. By adopting one of these as a personal outlook for the future, you can alleviate some of the stress of you being a you. The Rapture This is a perennial favorite in America. It's a late
Because a restoration of very marginal tax rates, along with a strong tightening of the effective rate, single-payer Medicare for all, and an end to war, are too hard. Fuck that. Texas DSA guy Talarico is gonna make sure he stirs the racial grievance pot instead, linking "white
Joseph Tainter's 1988 The Collapse of Complex Societies seeks a unifying principle based in scientific analysis to explain the demise of civilizations across time and place. The book synthesizes, refines, and discounts prevailing theories to derive a generalized explanatory model – a grand unified theory as it were – for
Having mostly detached from social media and YouTube, especially over the last three weeks, I've had time to catch up on reading and writing. I still scan headlines in the morning and throughout the day. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) popped up on my regular e-haunts,
David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018) came out several years ago and I finally got around to picking it up. It is hard to read because the shared personal stories sprinkled throughout are so depressing. It is a case study in dukkha and sometimes, dukkha is hard
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. - Psalm 55:22 In the Theravada vinaya, the Buddha wisely laid out a way to address the hankering after titles, recognition, distinctions, and honors very simply: deference is given to those
I've been reluctant to delve too deeply into modern lineages and their teachings, but it's unavoidable for a Westerner seeking clarity on questions related to dhamma, practice, and final ends. Practice has its own rewards, here and now, and big-picture goals and objectives can be
The Society of St. Pius X is set to hold episcopal consecrations very shortly. I found this document of theirs online, and it is a remarkable source for understanding just how different the Catholic religion of today is from its pre-conciliar form. When I say "different," I
Several days ago, I opened some code at work and saw a constructor with 32 parameters. For non-techies, this is a cry for help: the developers who were working in the area over the years violated a basic rule of object-oriented programming. Think of it as butchering the
Western civilization is a death cult and has been for quite some time now...
Last weekend, America began a new Near Eastern war against one of the most ancient cultures on earth: Iran. The goal was/is to drop bombs on them for four weeks, pulverizing their military and industrial base so badly that the ordinary Iranians finally rise up and overthrow their evil
Fr. Chad Ripperger discusses the real reason for latae sententiae excommunications for women who procure abortions, or the “health care“ professionals who carry them out. I cover infant baptism here. Ripperger’s claim that abortion is especially heinous, not because it involves killing only, but because it permanently denies the