Month: March 2017

• March 9, 2017

  Being an Odd Ball

  I am an odd ball. Hoinacki, Ivan Illich’s buddy: I suspect that to enjoy this quietly exciting and ever-changing contact with reality, one needs to seek some kind of marginality from the mainstream: physical places in which to drop out, psychical realms in which to dwell apart, spiritual disciplines through which to reach and practice…
• March 4, 2017

  ‘It’s Not At All Hard To Be Misanthropic Today…’

  It’s not at all hard to be misanthropic today because it’s plain to see that most human beings don’t care about each other or about other sentient beings all that much, let alone about what Daoists beautifully call the “ten thousand things.” Industrial civilization has ravaged the planet in only 250 years, causing global temperatures…