No gurus

 I always tell students on Opening Day to resist the Guru model of wisdom. Philosophy is collaborative. Authority figures do not appeal. 

"...there is no teacher, no pupil; there is no leader; there is no guru; there is no Master, no Saviour. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything." Well, Krishnamurti, I wouldn't go that far.

"People usually come to the front door."

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Future of Humanity Institute

	Tim Crane ⁦‪@timcrane102‬⁩ I've seen the Future of Humanity and it is, er, rather homogenous .... oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/future-humanit…   8/21/22, 7:28 AM

Wendell Berry on Delight

 ...as a Force of Resistance to Consumerism, the Key to Mirth Under Hardship, and the Measure of a Rich Life

"I have always had a quarrel with this country not only about race but about the standards by which it appears to live," James Baldwin told Margaret Mead as they sat down together to reimagine democracy for a post-consumerist world. A generation later, the poet, farmer, and ecological steward Wendell Berry — a poet in the largest Baldwinian sense — picked up the time-escalated quarrel in his slim, large-spirited book The Hidden Wound (public library) to offer, without looking away from its scarring realities, a healing and conciliatory direction of resistance to a culture in which our enjoyment of life is taken from us by the not-enoughness at the hollow heart of consumerism, only to be sold back to us at the price of the latest product, and sold in discriminating proportion along lines of stark income inequality... (continues)

Maria Popova

characteristic delight

"Unsurprisingly, the back of Either/Or didn’t say which kind of life was better. All it said was: “Does Kierkegaard mean us to prefer one of the alternatives? Or are we thrown back on the existentialist idea of radical choice?” That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professors’ characteristic delight at not imparting information."

Either/Or" by Elif Batuman: https://a.co/4q7yZ0f

If heaven ain't a lot like Wrigley

and Chavez Ravine...

For some of us, heaven would be listening to Harry & Vin forever. https://t.co/KAekdZ99yc

— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER) August 6, 2022

E B White’s morning dilemma

How do you resolve this, rationally?

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Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu

👣Solvitur ambulando

💭Sapere aude