The Metaphor

The Metaphor

A New Wild West in the Middle
The cardinal shift of the true frontier.
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This Is Not the Dunning–Kruger Effect
But an artifact of the war on intuition.
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Cortisol Is a Bad Metaphor for Stress
A better, ecological metaphor.
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The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth
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Why I am Christian again
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We Don't Talk About Jordan Peterson
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There Is a House in New Orleans
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Choosing Penelope
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Lame Immortality
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Covert Materialism
Against re-enchantment minimalism.
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The Origins and History of American Gods
A noble birth of hyper-salient tripe.
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Looksmaxxing Ourselves to Death
Incels and Instagram Face.
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There Is a House in New Orleans
The emergent origins of a folk song.
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Choosing Penelope
On Marriage
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Marty Supreme & the End of the World War II Consensus
To be one of the greats.
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What Even Writing Is
To a culture losing the identity of a writer.
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Existential Dread as Orienting Principle
Beyond a naïve battle between good and evil.
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The Metaphysics of Upgrading to Paid
A philosophy of sales.
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The Metaphor
The Metaphor
Reality is narrative and our only job is to make it beautiful.
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