By Eric Le Roy
In this, our very own segment of the fabulous history of humankind, one of the best things you can do – informally or otherwise – is to become a good editor. I don’t mean a ‘journalism’ editor; I mean a life editor. This is because there is so much ‘information’ piling up in front of us these days that we need a powerful … Read the rest
It is a curious habit of our species to claim exclusive ownership of “invention,” as if novelty were a mineral we dug out of the human skull with heroic effort. Yet when we examine ourselves with more honesty, we notice that even our most brilliant ideas are stitched from older cloth. We pretend they arrived in a flash of divine inspiration, but the raw material was always borrowed from books, … Read the rest
Rationality, if you think about it, is the least celebrated form of heroism. It has no anthem, no flag, no stadium. Yet it has saved more lives than courage ever did. Commander Spock, that calm half-human mirror to our chaos, is the perfect metaphor: the eyebrow that rises when others shout, the voice that says “calculate” when everyone else says “pray.” Logic, done properly, is erotic — not in the … Read the rest
Welcome to the new dawn of Reason — capital R, please, it looks smarter that way. The land of logic has finally decided that compassion is too expensive. The accountants of destiny have opened their spreadsheets and discovered that people with imperfect pancreases, lungs, or livers are just… bad investments. Progress, apparently, must now be measured in insulin units per capita.
And so, the gates close. Not to the criminals, … Read the rest
Why “Traditional Values” Never Existed
Let’s face it: every time someone says we must “return to traditional values,” I look around in confusion, wondering which exact century they are referring to. Is it the one with the public latrines and communal sponges, or the one with corsets so tight that women fainted during polite conversation? People love to imagine some golden age of virtue, but history—being its usual uncooperative self—refuses … Read the rest
