wising up the mark – CALL ME MAGGIE

October 28, 2012

How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age… Continue reading

September 18, 2012

Makers & Takers: More of the Long Con

A lot of my “everyday” existential philosophizing takes the form of asking people to be aware of the Long Con or the Big Sting… that is where you become your own mark in the long con game of bad faith… Continue reading

June 4, 2012

Whatever, Etc., #13: Beginning to Wise up the Mark