The Metaphor
James Taylor ForemanReality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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A Philosophy Must Be Tolerable to Your Wife to Be True
Say, you go to a plantation in South Louisiana, where the only open coffee shop in town is. In the parking lot there’s a sign that says, “Do not park to the right of this sign. Violators will be towed.”
You would immediately understand tha...
Left-Brain Seizures Made Me a Writer
Sir Joshua Reynolds’ "The Death of Cardinal Beaufort” (1377-1447). From William Shakespeare's "Henry VI," Part II, Act III, Scene iii. (Hidden demon in background recently uncovered in a restoration)
What makes a person want to become a wr...
See You Space Cowboy…
The ghosts of men with cigarettes, short ties, greased hair are so easily pulled to imagination they almost materialize on the other side of the glass.
Tube TVs to my left and right play documentary footage of the events leading up to the...
Status
I wrote a piece about how there is a huge and mostly unidentified group of thinkers who were secretly influenced by Jordan Peterson (me). They don’t tend to identify themselves because associating yourself with Jordan Peterson has become lo...
Cowboys and Indians
This is the first entry in a series called American Archetypes, where and I explore artifacts of the unique mythos of Americana. Check out Eddie’s first entry in the series here.
When we would play cowboys and Indians as kids, you...
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Cajun Catholic. Southern Gothic. Studied philosophy, worked in Silicon Valley, now I'm back in Louisiana. Reality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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