why we should

I have been reading the substack Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon since late 2024. It’s J.N. Nielsen’s more recently platform as his work is available on tumblr and there is a newsletter or two. I have been educated by all this and is my go to read on substack. Especially for the generalist reader (as opposed the general reader)…

In my view, religion is a technology of government. My view? Within the framework of the worlding urge, that much of our institutions are things we have met with and made, are the outcomes of that which moves us to should among and on others. It is why we should, the basic assumption of this blog. I say that with…

The topics of the mind’s eye and the inner voice, and how they are born across the human population have been on my mind because I wonder how that affects something as nebulous as the world. If worlding is what we do when we express our urge to should on others as ourselves, do we lack an organ to sense…

We read. Douglas, Mary, and Steven Ney. 1998. Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences, The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy. Berkeley : New York: University of California Press ; Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-520-20752-3 Douglas, Mary. 1996. Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste. London: SAGE publications. This deals with the changes in the ritualistic use of conspiracy theories…

Mary Douglas & Steven Ney. 1998. Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences, The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy. Berkeley : New York: University of California Press ; Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780520207523 A copy of Missing Persons arrived in excellent condition, while heading towards 30 years old. Bought in my reading to catch-up with the work of anthropologist by…

‘I feel like a man from another era’: Neanderthal hunter Ludovic Slimak This is the author in their natural habitat, but curiously unmuddied or dusted, from the inside of the dustjacket of the book The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature. The title riffing on Desmond Morris’ The Naked Ape (tell me, if you’re under 40 would…