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: “What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually …
: Favorite vinyl find in the last weeks Standout track: “The Lakes of Ponchartrain”
: He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire. “Be still, and know that I am …
: Living in the Twin Cities, and feeling the need to monitor The Situation daily––not to mention keep abreast of our hyper-local neighborhood chat (~100 …
: “If intellectual life is not left to rest in its splendid uselessness, it will never bear its practical fruit. Likewise, the struggle for a just …
: Coleridge, on the function of poetry (specifically Wordsworth’s task in his contributions to Lyrical Ballads): “awakening the mind’s attention from …
: More from Lewis on attention: “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you …
: C.S. Lewis on Attention: “Now that she was left alone with the children, she took no notice of either of them. And that was like her too. In Charn she …
: A passage from a letter from C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greaves (22 June 1930) that I had not come across before (h/t Michael Sacasas): “Tolkien once …
: What’s the best metaphor for attention? “If we construe the fundamental problem of the attention economy in terms of attentional labor–that as users …
: 🎵 New vinyl find: Doc Watson’s Southbound Crisp guitar and a nice variety of songs
: Celebrating Bill Evans' birthday with a great new vinyl acquisition 🎵
: Mr. Beaver’s wise counsel for the age of LLMs: “But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used …
: Currently reading: Stand Out of Our Light by James Williams 📚
: Social Inequalities of the Attention Economy “This increasing self-regulatory burden may pose a unique challenge for those living in poverty, who, research suggests are more likely to begin from …
: Currently listening: new vinyl acquisition, My Favorite Things by John Coltrane 🎵
: Currently reading: The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger 📚
: Yet trees are not ‘trees’, until so named and seen - and never were so named, till those had been who speech’s involuted breath unfurled, faint echo …
: Finished reading: The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist 📚 Equal parts fascinating, prophetic, frustrating, provocative.