Tag Archives: Western Civilization
The Future Belongs to Those Who Hustle
If you have ever experienced summer in the Deep South, then you will never forget the exhausting humidity and the oppressive heat–it feels like wearing a hot towel all day; t-shirts become nothing more than ornamental sop rags. Mowing the … Continue reading
A Little Something to Offend Everyone (repost from May 7, 2011)
I. Why the obsession to document nearly every event in our mundane lives (and they are mundane for the most part—and should be, for “mundane” is derived from mundus)? Experience has to be mediated through the camera before it can be … Continue reading
Sometimes a Little Dose of Anti-Civilization Is Just Want You Need
I wish that I could tell you that I spend my disposable time (as if time were truly disposable in the first place) trying to learn Baroque-period pieces on my mandolin. I have attempted that, and I do fancy Renaissance-period … Continue reading
The Trying
“…And what there is to conquer / By strength and submission, has already been discovered / Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope / To emulate–but there is not competition– There is only the fight … Continue reading
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