For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
Last week I sang the undersung praises of negative role models. Our paths through life are constructed from a combination of dos and don’ts, which are made most vivid to our imitative minds when we find human exemplars of them. Some of my most effective teachers are dipshits who make me shudder with clarity about […]
Is virtual vice a virtue or a vice? Wordplay aside, my question is whether it’s good or bad to experience sin vicariously, for example, playing violent video games or watching violent movies. We can think of scenarios in which it’s bad: Underage children learning belligerence from video games that they take it out on people […]
DEFINITION 1. Weighing all pros and cons. 2. Weighing some (not all) pros and cons. 3. Weighing the right pros and cons. 4. Weighing the pros and cons that I want you to. Socrates argued that we all want to better our circumstances. No one is out to get less of what they want. When […]
Talking to the occasional troubled friend lately, I’ve had the urge to recommend getting philosophical about the trouble. But I’ve held my tongue, largely because getting philosophical has a bad reputation. It evokes images of indifferent or glib people saying, “Hey, shit happens, what’re ya gonna do? Life ain’t a bowl of cherries.” Or maybe […]
Months ago in this column I made a distinction between ingesting and digesting critical feedback. Ingesting is taking it in. Digesting is deciding what part is nutritious and what part is waste by-product. I argued that these two activities are best separated because ingesting feedback often hurts and makes us want to reject it ALL […]
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