In this an excerpt from a newspaper column by C. S. Lewis, first published in 1958 and later included in a collection called God In The Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, the reader is forced to confront the prospect that extremely limited freedom awaits us in a world run as a technocratic welfare state.
A second offering from Kenneth Patchen This one is a fragment of a much longer block of information, almost like an incantatory text. A certain portion of Patchen’s work could be described as downright apocalyptic, including this excerpt:
A New Series Highlighting Interesting Poetry The year started out with me having taken a break from poetry, both reading and writing it. For months my eyes belonged almost solely to Henry Miller, as I finally found time to get through The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy as well as the other, lesser know works like Big […]
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because […]
As man conducts his affairs, he goes on living in view of his orientation, of the repertory of his convictions, and all his acts—and, therefore, his whole life—will, in the case of fictitious orientation, be themselves fictitious. And, in fact, if you analyze your own situation, you will note that the type of orientation in […]
One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs—not new ideas and inventions, important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves. —Rollo May, Man’s Search […]
A Resonant Spiritual Message to Start Your Day
Local Author Ponders Completion of a Life Project The title of this piece, a snatch of phrase taken from my poet’s notebook, popped in my head one day and I wrote it down. That’s what a writer does. A wise one, anyway.
Local Author Reports on 2021, A Most Prosperous Year Nothing earth-shattering or tl;dr here, merely a note celebrating what turned out as one of the best years I’ve ever lived. I reached a level both of personal best in terms of my health and physical well-being, as well as business success at our little hippie […]
Today’s thought on poetry comes courtesy the realm of philosophy: “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music…. And people flock around the poet and say: ‘Sing again soon’—that is, […]
