We have an incessant need to consume information. As I ruminated in a recent off-the-cuff video on the topic, I think part of the answer is in creating as much or more than we consume - however that's not easy. The tension between these two modes of acting in the world (consuming vs creating) is … [Read more...]
Mythology
After an embarrassingly long time, I've finished the first part - a decent 270 pages - of Bulfinch's Mythology. This part covers pretty much all of the Greek mythology, and worthy of a tome in and of itself. I'd been putting off reading it for some time, and even when I did begin, I did so at a … [Read more...]
Disorientation
I've wanted to write something about my personal life for some time now. Something along the lines of what I've been up to, how I'm feeling about university and my final year of studies coming up; you know, the usual blog kind of stuff. But I find it extremely difficult even to begin since … [Read more...]
A Silly Conundrum on Reading Lists
I've come across this topic enough times in the last few days that I feel obliged to write about it. So apparently, according to a popular writer on Medium, Nik Goeke, reading lists are bad. He's not the only one with such an opinion though; this thought came up in some discussions I had with two … [Read more...]
A Spiritual Cogitation
I'm fresh off a 14 hour audiobook binge of Alan Watts over the past week, so you'll have to excuse me if I sound a tad insane here. As the wise man once said though, you have to be out of your mind to come to your senses. About 3 months ago I tripped on LSD. Strange phenomenology of the trip … [Read more...]
Is Mathematics a Fine Art?
You have likely heard the term "fine art" referring to a pursuit such as painting, sculpture, or poetry. But the notion of mathematics as art, let alone a fine art, may be positively alien and even offensive to some. How could the source of so much suffering in high school be art? If you would … [Read more...]
Towers of Babel, Networks of Meaning
There is a fundamental problem that all human's face endlessly, throughout their lives - getting their thoughts across. Clear communication. A brief look at the current political landscape reveals that we are presently suffering from a disease of miscommunication - fragmented political ideologies … [Read more...]
Mortimer Adler and The Great Ideas
So I finally finished this behemoth of a philosophical tome last week. With notes on almost every page, I could write an essay (or ten) I've got more than enough inspiration for writing about 18 essays, inspired How To Think About The Great Ideas by Mortimer Adler. … [Read more...]
Leisure Time is no Joke
Feels like it's been quite a while since I last wrote anything on this blog (aside from the quick copy-paste of an essay for a course I'm taking). I don't want to be making excuses though (and who the hell am I accountable to anyway?), but there's quite a few things I've been itching to write about … [Read more...]
Untangling the Climate Denialism Gish Gallop
(I wrote this as an assessment piece for a climate change science and policy course I'm taking this semester. 800 word limit so I didn't get into as much detail as I'd have liked, unfortunately). The Gish Gallop (also known as proof by verbosity) is the fallacious debate tactic of drowning your … [Read more...]
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