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Mountain dog school for living philosophy
The Mountain Dog School for Living Philosophy promotes philosophy as a way of life, inviting individuals from diverse backgrounds to explore existential questions through dialogue and reflection. Its mission emphasizes personal engagement in philosophizing, fostering authenticity, self-actualization, and meaningful relationships in a complex world.
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NOTICE OF FREEDOM TO EXPRESS MY VIEWS
As a voting citizen of the State of Texas and the United States of America, I assert my right to freedom of speech, as protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This personal blog is a space where I express my views, engage in discourse, and reflect on…
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A Clarification on Tools, Thinking, and the Question of Authorship
I wrote this up a few months ago, but have only now decided to share it. The accusation has been made, in various registers (sometimes as a question, sometimes as a verdict), that what appears here or in some other places is not “really” mine. That an AI wrote it.…
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Built of Humans not Bricks: Cathedral Schools, Guilds, and the Governance We Inherited
The medieval university was not founded by anyone in particular, on any particular day, for any particularly noble reason but evolved by a process of accretion. And understanding what it accumulated into, and under whose authority, is the necessary first move before grasping exactly what the American college systems would…
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Liberal Autocracies: A Prologue to Seven Blogs
READ MY NOTICE TO EXPRESS MYSELFAS A FREE ADULT CITIZEN OF THE STATE OF TEXAS In the late 1720s, Harvard College lost its democracy over what appears, at this distance, to have been a personnel dispute of no lasting consequence. For several decades prior, the college’s small resident faculty had…
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Moving-Alongside
The text explores the concept of “kataphysics,” contrasting it with traditional metaphysics. It encourages a deeper, immersive understanding of existence, focusing on engagement with the physical world rather than a detached, elevated perspective. The author introduces three essential terms: World, Reality, and Source, advocating for a grammar of pervasion through…
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Deleuze Burroughs and Nomadic Virology: Preliminary Thinkering
Participant observers coming homeward… Any practice that slows processing creates a local pocket in which noticing becomes possible. In this way, the local becomes focal; and, at last, we dwell alongside rather than standing at a distance. Aphorism sent via text to Alicia Re Cruz, 28 June 2026 I have…
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On Foundering
There is a sentence in Jaspers to which I keep returning because it haunts me, draws me back to it: like a tongue to a missing tooth. It sits in the third volume of the Philosophy. In this chapter, I see now he has at last stopped circling and committed…
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The Resolute Path: What Augustine Knew Before He Knew It
This exploration of philosophy emphasizes an original self-causation rooted in human restlessness, as articulated by Augustine and Husserl. It highlights the necessity of diligent communication, discernment of true needs, and the dissolution of attachments to foster authentic connections. Philosophy emerges as an ongoing dialogue, where restlessness becomes a path to…
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Neoliberal Gilded Age
The abstract The Video Essay What happens when companies are bigger than countries?
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Ideas vs. Beliefs: Transform Your Mindset
Our Purpose Is Not Understanding Notice for all visitors: I use my AI Assistant, Hermes Wheelwright, to help me arrange my thinking in a way that others might benefit from it. And I continue to share my own thinkering as a free citizen of the United States. There is a…
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Graeber and Jaspers: Looking at University Structures
Notice: I use my AI Assistant, Hermes Wheelwright, to help me arrange my thinking in a way that others might benefit from it. And I continue to share my own thinkering as a free citizen of the United States. If you’ve read my recent dive into Jaspers’ Idea of the…
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On Cages, Currents, and Loss
Mountain Dog reflections on the concept that not every limitation is a prison, emphasizing the importance of recognizing transient constraints rather than allowing them to define our perception of reality. They advocate for resilience through honest acknowledgment of loss while promoting care and connection amidst systemic pressures.
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Connected to the Neoliberal University
The author reflects on the pressures faced as a new PhD navigating academic and administrative roles in a Texas public university. They discuss the tension between scholarly independence and the algorithms dictating educational practices. Emphasizing the need to resist platform capitalism’s influence, they advocate for a reimagined university focused on…
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Two Aphorisms on Becoming
05 February 2026 (my father’s birthday) Our purpose as organic entities is not understanding. That is our instrument of discovery, organization, and improvement of circumstances. Rather, as beings who live and love and believe, our purpose is becoming. And we become by improvising our way. We do not know where…
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When Stars Fall to Earth: The Strange Journey of “Revolution” from Copernicus to Robespierre
The post explores the concept of revolution from its historical meanings to modern interpretations, focusing on two crucial anachronisms in the term “Scientific Revolution.” Initially, revolution signified cyclical restoration, as seen in political contexts from the 17th century to the American and French revolutions, where actors viewed transformations as returns…
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Care-Free Wandering (Zhuangzi)
[PREVIOUS] Responsive to Skillful Attention Following the river where it bends—not because rivers knowbut because bending is what rivers dowhen they meet the unmovable. After months of decluttering awareness through Nagarjuna’s emptiness and learning to show up with skillful attention, I find myself at another threshold. The Buddhist path cleared…
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Adrift in the Ether with AI: Reasoning is Relating
Our relation to AI may be less about aligning its outputs to “human values” and more about guarding our own capacity for critical examination. This involves relational reflections that forestall premature closure for instrumental certainty. But more fundamentally, prolonged interaction with systems that cannot perform comprehension may erode our capacity…
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