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The Religious Impulse to Return to the '90s
Sacred and profane time.
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Please Protect Wisdom from Midwits
An immune response against growing spiritual parasites.
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How to Talk Normal and Good
We are cave people.
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The Sea Mammal Theory of Writing
Fish out of water... and then back in again.
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Creativity Hurts
Nobody wants to hear it. Welp... here ya' go.
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The Classics in the Swamps
Poor people and old books.
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It's Just a Dream
How to use dreams to become wise.
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Wide-Awakes, Presidential Debates, and Radical Centrists
Is politics pointless theater or a necessary evil?
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The Territory Is Not the Map
Or, “Petty and Pedantic and Unreal”
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AI Will Write the World’s Greatest Novel and it Won’t Matter
The duty for writers to write is heavier than ever.
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How to Make it as a Doomsday Prophet
Yuval Noah Harari meditates for 2 hours a day, as to not get too "blinded" by human "fictions."
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'Objectively True' Is Not Very True, Actually
Fluency is better.
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