Perennial Philosophy
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Anti-Reason in Our Times: The Renaissance of White Supremacy
Karl Jaspers warns in “Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time” (1952) of the unphilosophical spirit that favors comforting myths over uncomfortable truths. Contemporary white supremacist movements exemplify this “anti-reason,” exhibiting ideological rigidity and rejecting dialogue. Through the Browning’s work, “The… Continue reading
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Philosophical Faith in the World: Neither Sinner nor Consumer
Karl Jaspers small text provides us in 2025 with a manual of quiet defiance. For queer and other marginalized thinkers, educators, counselors, and all who remain exposed in the neoliberal storm winds, Jaspers offers us Way to reassert the soft power… Continue reading
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Neoliberalism: The Operating System of the Society of Control
Neoliberalism, emerging as a reaction against Keynesian policies, transforms social life through market logic, individual responsibility, and state facilitation of capital. It prioritizes deregulation, privatization, and austerity, reframing citizens as entrepreneurial actors. In Texas, neoliberal policies since the 1990s have… Continue reading
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The Current Empire
Unlike classical empires, the Current Empire no longer needs grand narratives of conquest. Instead, it extends its reach through bureaucratic normalization, algorithmic feedback loops, religious-nationalist fervor, and the hollowing of democratic discourse. Continue reading
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Reversion, Reconciliation, and Restoration: Toward Tranquility in the Current Empire
Looking Back Almost twenty years ago, I began troubling the word peace. Like many of us, I had long imagined peace as the cessation of violence, the arrival of stillness, the mutual exhale after the fire. But something in the… Continue reading
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Why the Right Is Wrong About Critical Race Theory | Truthout
Great interview with philosopher Tim Gordon. Very much worth a full read; Gordon’s works are also worth your time. That is, IF you really want to understand Critical Race Theory [CRT] and not just take for granted the strawmen arguments… Continue reading
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Interpreting thru Maize meanings written in light
I get to work alongside amazing youth. Here are a couple of YouTubes from two of my siblings who have shared with me their most current projects. I wanted to share it with my friends and colleagues who sometimes stumble… Continue reading
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NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION… WELL, MAYBE SOME OF US DO.
GETTING BACK INTO PUBLIC THINKERING† Since finishing my dissertation, I have not written nearly as much even in my journals as I used to do. I think the break is over now, however. The last few weeks have gotten me… Continue reading
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Beings of Enlightened Belief Are We…
Surely some of us are tired. As I get older, as my spouse gets older, we are often very tired. Very exhausted. It can be overwhelming. But what helps us—how we frankly help each other as friends find freedom—is reminding… Continue reading
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Siren Song Society: Profound Boredom – Authentic Leisure – Existential Liberation
offer these connections to encourage people to be okay with boredom–to not see every break in labor or in study or in whatever as requiring us to find something to amuse ourselves into utter alienated distraction. Continue reading
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Carnival Storm Drain, or the Outflow of Transistance
transistance does not flood-into our thinkering as the eradication of nihilism–shorting-out the negating power–but rather flows-out as a transformative process towards a broader, more inclusive engagement with reality. Continue reading
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The Great Awakening Trembles
The Great Awakening trembles before the abyss, its laurels withered by the winds of dialectic. Continue reading
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Seneca and Existenz Part 2
Second part of my considerations comparing/contrasting Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life with philosophers of existence… in this episode, more specifically with five figures I consider poets of existence: Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, André Gide, Emily Dickinson, and Virginia… Continue reading
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Encompassing – Bright Truth – Wonderful
This is a song that I started singing a few days before my dissertation defense as I walked around my neighborhood in the early morning. I think the tune goes back to when I was in the Seminary? I know… Continue reading
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For Tihleigh, 21 Oct 2023
If you do not bring your friends up with you, who will? If you do not let your friends bring you up, who really can? There is nothing else to lifting each other up than beholding that the greatest truth—freedom—obtains… Continue reading
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APHORISM 02 OCT 2023
Uncertainty has three profiles: DREAD FINITIUDE BOREDOM Continue reading
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APHORISM 01Oct2023
The Divine Good, being omniscient, can never forget. But as Good Being, chooses to not remember, letting-go of condemnation in the face of honest repentance. When we forgive ourselves for our actions–for all we have done that we should not… Continue reading
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