More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.
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Not Lewis the existentialist, but Lewis existentially, like Kierkegaard as much a psychologist as a theologian.
You don’t own your name, much less any pronouns.
In spite of many differences, Trump like Washington has become a providential president.
The harsh violence of Blood Meridian and Lonesome Dove draw us in more than it repels, and the proximity of death makes the actions of its dramatis personae only more vivid and compelling to us.
Without a doubt, irony plays a large part in the phenomenon of Porky. His mere existence in a fanciful form at a restaurant that specializes in pork meats is deliciously ironic.
We may be approaching a time when the illusion of selfhood is strengthened, not weakened, because we are surrounded by machines enacting it.