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Taking a break from “workin’ things”

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Will Manidis:

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I do think the AI thing is the single greatest jump ball of meaning that we’ve ever had. The questions of how then do we live and how do we conduct ourselves are incredibly consequential over the next few years. And I just don’t think there are particularly good answers, secular answers to them that exist outside of religion.

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Got in the car this morning thinking Aside from the usual (and reliable) politics chatter, I haven’t heard a good podcast in a while, not one that actually gets your attention. Leave it to Demetri Kofinas to correct this.

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@jabel Love it! I only read the intro but I’m looking forward to this one. Eventually

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@jonah Wow. Beautiful

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@ReaderJohn !

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@JohnBrady Hahaha. How did I forget those?

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@JohnBrady Is it weird to say I envy you on this? At this point, I pretty naturally envision a scatting of ashes not much more solemn than this classic scene. (No relation, if you’re wondering.) Rootedness — I’ll keep praising it, but I ain’t got it yet

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@kwbaker Beautiful. But… Does it have Bluetooth? Where are the a/c vents? Does the gps screen flip up from the dash? Massaging seats?

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@manton Same! My wife asked me just yesterday if I had spent a few hundred at Walmart for anything. Nope, I have not. Someday, I’d love to know who did.

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@jabel Uh! I almost took a picture of the advert on a truck yesterday walking by the graveyard that fits this perfectly. I think it was these guys

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@jonah Beautiful

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John Brehm’s poem “Over the Moon” — quite lovely. And I love love love that a poem about rain can have that title. (You’ll see.) And it made me think of Vasiliki Anastasiou and the Amalgamation Choir’s incredible performance of Ksenitia tou Erota.

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@ReaderJohn I’m two-thirds through the issue and I haven’t seen them really target that. Hubris, certainly, but not “trans-humanism” specifically. Though Snyder did say they were “confronting not so much a culture that openly despises humanity as one quietly tempted to transcend it.” Heck, beyond the cover and editorial, I don’t think they’ve even targeted “anti-humanism” per se. Each of the essays has, helpfully, had a more specific focus under that umbrella.

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Funny enough, I forgot, and realized yesterday, that I already cut my Hedgehog subscription. More generically trying to do more and read less kinda thing than anything else. Plus, @jabel is helping convince me to pivot toward stuff like Mortis & Tenon mag over all this other chatter :)

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@drwalt 😂 That was a darn good laugh for 4:30 in the morning. Thank you for that.

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Conversations overheard from the kitchen

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Meghan: Whatcha doin’, Monk?

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Will: I’m just not.

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M: You’re just not? You’re just not what?

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W: I’m just not poopin’..

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@jabel ++!

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@ReaderJohn Possibly. Even probably. A fair warning, for sure. (I would say the gnosticism tag has stood the test of time — ie, served as better critique than the others. But lazy tags of “nihilism” I have utterly balked at.)

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Comment’s recent issue (that Hendren published in) took up the topic “The Anti-Human” and I have found the essays excellent. I certainly do think the questions around AI warrant a serious look at “anti-humanism.” Anne Snyder opens the editorial with a reference to Peter Thiel’s long stumbling pause when asked by Ross Douthat if he believes the human race should endure… like, at all. She also admits that the issue is darker than usual, but not without hope. And hope is definitely something Comment is better at than the Hedgehog people, but that shouldn’t really be surprising. I even suspect that much of the trouble here boils down to exactly that, which seems a far cry short of the subtle, “just sayin” accusations of post-liberalism — that other bugaboo buzzword.

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A poem for Theo

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@drwalt Love the connections. Thanks for sharing this

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@ablerism When I first read your post, I thought “Okay, I’ve never thought of putting the Hog Blog in the ‘unhelpful writing/doing hamster wheel’ category (and definitely not in the “secret Orbanist” category!), but I do have a growing category of unhelpful-writing/doing-hamster-wheel activity, and I could be convinced the Hedgehog is worthy of the critique, if not the subscription chopping block.” But now that I’ve read Kanakia’s post, I have oh so many complaints that I may have to (gulp) blog about it. 🤓

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(eg, I loved Catherine Moon’s piece on Edith Stein and Kanakia’s confusion about it seems weirdly forced; and Gary Saul Morson’s piece on Russian translation was very helpful to me and even helped a friend and I settle on Katz as a modern translation for Brothers K)

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I guess I wanted to nod with the critique but I’m wary of a kind of “whoever is not for us, in the way I want them to be, is against us.” Kanakia wants to say that the Hedgehog people have an “ambiguous, indecipherable approach [that I’m not so subtly implying is all about money]” and complain that it’s “as if the authors were reaching for big ideas and finding only the conventional wisdom.” (Heaven’s no! Not … conventional wisdom. 🤓) But one of the reasons why they “would never say” what she seems to really want to insist they do secretly want to say is because what the folks at the Hog Blog support, by my reading, is reform over revolution and thoughtfulness over choosing sides. And maybe that will always look like “just words — a waste of time” to someone like Kanakia.

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Forgive the lengthy comment but I don’t actually want to blog about it right now 🙂. Definitely interested in following this conversation more and in reading any more thoughts you have about it. Also, “in addition to” seems a powerful parenthesis — and, by my reading, correction to whatever Kanakia is up to. So was your essay

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@ReaderJohn Yes, yes he did. In 2019 I was still an in-print First Things reader. That year did seem to mark the change. That was the year of Against David Frenchism. I read that essay when it was published having never heard of David French but decided I liked him— based on nothing but an essay against him. In general, 2015 on was rough, but the number of pure-hypocrisy 180s in the lead-up to 2020 was mind blowing. First Things had always been (happily, as far as I was concerned) a mixed bag, but their chosen trajectory seemed undeniable at that point. “You can let me out here, please; I’ll walk.”

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@jabel Excellent. Thanks for this

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@dwalbert @JohnBrady I admit one cringe: I’m choosing to ignore the praise for Alan Watts in the introduction as something other — and, as he was a classmate of Fermor’s, more personal — than a sign of what could only be called inauthenticity.

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Fun story. I was at work on a Saturday afternoon. I had spent much of the morning bouncing to 7 or 8 bookstores within the call radius looking for Fermor (and Olivia Manning). I’d only written down his name and couldn’t remember the titles. That afternoon at work, someone said they had a book they thought I’d like but they couldn’t remember the author. I had not mentioned Fermor but we may have previously talked about Rebecca West’s BL&GF. Anyway, turns out the book he had was A Time of Gifts. Of all the paperbacks in all the gin joints…

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@JohnBrady Thanks! Don’t know the film but it’s added to Someday

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@tinyroofnail Thanks to @dwalbert for recommending it a while back

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Currently Reading: A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor 📚

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Instantly smitten, I am. (Excerpt from the introduction)

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@isaacgreene Nice!

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@ablerism Hope you enjoy it :)

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@goblingumbo Love this one

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Finished reading: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi 📚

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A very refreshingly lovely novel. I confess that I stalled a couple months ago, about halfway through. As curative as its loveliness was, I admit to getting bored; it seemed for a stretch that there really wasn’t anything “happening,” which I assume, and also confess, is my own problem. But it was worth returning to. The two people who strongly recommended this book — my mother-in-law, when she gave it to my wife for Christmas, and a surgeon I work with when he returned from vacation — gestured in the same way with their hand over their heart when they...

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@JohnBrady !!!

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@markstoneman They’re a hoot :) Also, thanks for linking to that Mykhed book. Looks good

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I leave for five minutes…

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Realism for realists — “All this / Is here eternally, just because once it was.”

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Here it comes!

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The low shall see high: “try to praised the mutilated world”

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Oyster farm at sunset — where the Salt Bay meets the river

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Think like a mountain — no nature without fear • Also reminded me of one of my earliest microblog posts, when the traveling adventure first began — with a fitting quote from the great Barry Lopez and a photo of what I believe is (fittingly) Rising Wolf Mountain in view

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Kitchen Chalk Talk (read the whole poem here)

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Debate and the evasion of empathy

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🍿 Watched Project Hail Mary yesterday as planned. The whole room clapped at the end, which is a thing we’re doing now, I guess. This was a very fun Thing To Do over the past few weeks — reading and sharing the book before the movie — and we’re a little sad it’s over. I would give the movie a Met Expectations...

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Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚

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Delightful. Meghan and I had fun sharing the book. We’ll see the movie this afternoon at our quaint old local theater after some lunch-brunch in town, which will be our first second official date in, oh, 2 1/2 years 🙂.

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Text from the wife. That’s my boy!

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I stalled reading Ross McCullough’s The Body of This Death over a month ago, mostly I’d say for reasons also mentioned by Mr. ReaderJohn — namely, its notebook aphorisms quality, which does not promote page turning. But the book does reward at random. It’s nothing if not interesting.

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“The perfect, blurry image of the child you imagined is replaced with this child, with your child, and there is no going back.” — Hannah LaGrand

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Staring at the walls - With a word from Hannah Arendt

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Touching grass, smelling grass lilies

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