Why Humans Shun the Humanities
History grows us up. And literature? It complicates the world for us. This is why we must kill the humanities.
History grows us up. And literature? It complicates the world for us. This is why we must kill the humanities.
“Tech is taking all the things you already disliked—triviality, noise, rudeness, interruption—and delivering them in a format you don’t have any control over.”
The U.S. invented the national park—and ours hold mysteries of nature, of human eccentricity, of the past, of science and the supernatural....
Living freely and intentionally is hard work. Every little decision winds up visible in the mosaic.
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”~Viktor Frankl
Willie knows exactly when to cuddle up or do the good-dog sit—and when he can get away with doing his own thing. But women never seem to get away with it for long.
Tiny, incapacitating acts of rebellion can keep you human. Or is this masochism?
After a string of near-disasters, Hamlet emerges unscathed.
"It’s so easy to make yo’self out God Almighty when you ain’t got nothin’ tuh strain against but women and chickens.”
“We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”