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Quotes: 7 November 2026
The Matter With Things
Iain McGilchrist
According to a view which has been much promulgated in recent years, language is just a system of signs, in which words refer endlessly to one another (a typical left hemisphere view). However langu...
Quotes: 6 November 2026
The Language Animal
Charles Taylor
We can see the main features of the designative-instrumental view of language: its interweaving with the modern epistemology which comes down to us from Descartes and Locke; its tendency to reify the min...
Quotes: 5 November 2026
Goliath’s Curse
Luke Kemp
SELECTED BY THE SWORD: Violence lurks beneath the first Goliaths. Across different world regions, more unequal, dense, hierarchical communities were associated with more violence and eventually the onset of warfa...
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The Biggest Loser
Some random thoughts
The pundits say it’s all about the high prices — the price of gas and diesel and groceries in particular — about the tariffs, and about the foolish war with Iran. True, but only in part. It was also...
Quotes: 3 November 2026
[W]e can see clearly only when looking back. Collapse may be invisible until after it has occurred. We may be today living through a collapse that is for now slow and imperceptible.
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A reminder that death comes not just for every...
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I’m a retired attorney & counselor. I received my eduction from the U of Iowa. I’m an Iowa native. My wife & I lived in India, China, and Romania between 2012 & 2018.
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