Category: Culture

Distracting Ourselves to Death

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I recently listened to a podcast from The White Horse Inn titled “Scatterbrained.” As a side note, I have found The White Horse Inn to be an excellent source for thought-provoking podcasts, interviews, and commentary on American culture. So  I’d highly recommend checking their website out. Anyways…the podcast was inspired by a new book by Nicolas Carr called “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” I see this whole topic as a sequel to Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death which dealt with the Age of Television. Now we’re post-TV and living in a society shaped by the…

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A Little Bit of This and That

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Thanks to the Mises Institute, I ran across this fascinating website and wanted to share it. The “Seasteading Institute” is working to build communities on the ocean outside the realm of any government or country. Their logic is, since governments have claimed all the land, we must turn to the sea for freedom. It is really interesting. I’d love to try it someday. In fact, I’m tempted to sign up to be one of those 150 individuals in 5 years to try it out. I can’t express how exciting this is to me. Who would have dreamed 100 years ago…

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