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L1’s Almanac – Why Trying to be Socially Competent is Like a Game Show Where You Jump Through Stupid Foam Cutouts

Have you seen the game show Hole in the Wall? People have to fits themselves through a space in a wall that is supposedly made just for them as it glides down an alley, or else you are dumped into the water. It’s a show that makes me smile, so silly, so endearing. But why?Continue reading “L1’s Almanac – Why Trying to be Socially Competent is Like a Game Show Where You Jump Through Stupid Foam Cutouts”

I RISE ABOVE POPULAR CULTURE: How Frustration Over Virtue Explains The Internet, Tradition, Rage, Love, and the Raw Essence of Human Interaction on an Astonishing Level

If you take a look back in time, inside your philosophy textbooks, you’ll find that one of the big topics is virtue. Those people talked a lot about what virtue is, how to acquire it, whether it has value. However, one of the big controversies about virtue was that…..you could never prove if someone hadContinue reading “I RISE ABOVE POPULAR CULTURE: How Frustration Over Virtue Explains The Internet, Tradition, Rage, Love, and the Raw Essence of Human Interaction on an Astonishing Level”