I awakened on Sunday morning. My first thought of the day, on Thursday a majority of Brits decided to leave the EU. The European Union is a block of nations that have agreed to use a common currency, to establish a common regulation of trade, and to have open borders easing the movement of…
I envy the ancient Greeks of Attica, particularly the freemen and citizens of Athens. They lived in a god-infused world. Not us. We inhabit a sterile, positivistic world. According to logical positivism only that which can be empirically measured, mathematically accounted for has ontological status. The mystery of being is fed into a reductionistic…
The Atlantic published an article on The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel. This compilation of technological achievements reached back 6000 years thereabouts. Wendell Berry has said that it was a tool or a weapon that has been the prime mover of change in human history. That is a reasonable assessment as far as…
This past Tuesday evening I participated in a discussion with friends. The topic was Nihilism. The topic held a particular resonance for me. Just days ago word came that Prince was found dead. Shakespeare speaks to the brevity of life and the challenge of Nihilism. Out, out brief candle. Life is nothing more than…
