This is a return to form, and my old buddy Marc Danziger will probably be jealous. If you haven’t seen me have these kinds of conversations before, you can check out my American Wag YouTube playlist here. But if you hang around long enough I’ll end up bringing all of them here.
A couple of notes. The dark poet I was thinking about is Paul Kingsnorth. My personality doesn’t allow me to be a doomsayer, not to say that he is, but I tend more to be a staunch defender and let the devil take the hindmost. Which is to say in reiteration, I’m a big brother.
I’m referring to this post contra John Rawls and what the human needs for justice.
Some books & projects we talked about
Goedel Escher Bach - D.R. Hofstadter
The Myth of the Framework - Karl Popper
The Mind’s I - D.r. Hofstadter
The Technological Society - Alexander Karp
Anathem - Neal Stepehnson
About That Gunfight - details about my gun encounter in Brooklyn, 1991
About That Gunfight
I have had many opportunities to think about death. There are scenarios and experiences that have burned pivotal moments into my life, a few of which involved life and death. Today I am reminded once again about the moment I would have killed a young black man. Every time I think about the moment, I have the same clarity of purpose and intent. I would h…
