The hidden against the manifest On the demon of demythologisation in our time There’s a TED talk I saw circulating recently via the devil’s electric nervous system. In it, the Davos Alibi Bot, an imbecile named Yuval Noah Harari, develops a contrast between facts (like mountains and trees) and fictions (like God and
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The story of Hoydel Letting go of the ten thousand things It’s one of the strangest folk tales and also one of my favourites. You can find it in Franz Xavier von Schönwerth’s collection, The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Penguin, 2015). Anyone who knew the carpenter Hoydel wasn’
TOLKIEN AND THE FIGHT AGAINST ENTROPY The Lord of the Rings wrestles with the problem of entropy. Its heroes battle against the ever-increasing power of darkness. The walls of the keep crumble, the nations are in decline and the will of the warrior is shaken. Evil stretches its long fingers into many places. Only one course
The Faustian Left And The Sisters Of Fate Fate, Destiny and a Confused Bearded Lady This past week Fate as a concept has been on my mind quite a lot. I began considering Fate when I happened to come across a video of a female-to-male transexual who was crying because — now complete with a beard — she never knew
Dharma and Adharma “Do the needful.”
Lazy Jack An exegesis of a folk tale Consider your life as a question. How will you, as this live hermeneutical forcefield, as this mode of perception irregularly used by strangers, be an answer to this world that questions you; and how will you allow the world to answer the question of
On Folk Culture and the "Extended Universe" A letter concerning the development of dissident art, and included prototype In 2021, the platitude "Get Woke, go broke" is dead. Everyone got woke, and no one who got woke went broke. The meme was on life support before 2019. In 2021 its corpse is starting to smell. Did anyone