Month: September 2019
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Why Meaningful Work Rests On Folly
If the desire to do “meaningful work” above all else is a folly as I think it is, then why do we so strongly desire to do it? Because, people claim, evidence shows that individuals give 1/3 of their waking hours over 1/2 of their lives to working in some capacity or another. That is,…
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Ubi Sunt: The Death Of Heroism
Ubi sunt: where have all the heroic gestures gone? By “heroic,” I mean an act that is in keeping with the enormity of the situation at hand. A heroic act, so understood, may not be virtuous or honorable (though it may be). It may instead be thought of as “grand,” “epic,” “magnificent,” “larger than life,”…
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The Long-ago Vanquished Or Vanished Hierophanies
You don’t know what you’re doing. I’m not saying that you’re a fraud, a phony, or an imposture even though sometimes you might feel that way. I’m not saying that you’re walking around in someone else’s life. I’m saying, plainly, that you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s all. Hey, maybe none of us does.…
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You Were Born Into A Mystery Whose Name Is Total Work
You were born into a mystery. When you were born, you didn’t know you would be born into this. Neither did your parents. Nor did the rest of us. When and where you were born, so long as you were born less than 200 years ago somewhere in the West, wouldn’t make any difference to…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 