Tolkien and Lewis’ Curious “Paganism”
Any manner of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under cover of romance without their knowing it. - C.S. Lewis, Collected Letters, 1939 Reader and commenter "My New…
Errant Thoughts on the Lord of the Rings
I would like to make the case that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series is one of the most masterful works of religious rhetoric composed in the last century. As…
Teleology and Evolution: Defending the Anwei
In Bronze-Age Pervert's Bronze-Age Mindset, he makes an argument that while Darwinian evolution is true, it is not sufficient to understand life and life's purpose: You must understand that the evolutionary psychologist,…
Fight Club: Gayer than Gay
I got my daily dose of humility today. Fight Club is gay. I had seen the movie, read the book, and heard the theory, and still dismissed it as nonsense. Clearly,…
The Pot: An Analysis
The time has come to go over perhaps my favorite lyrical masterpiece: The Pot by Tool. An almost Shakespearean mixture of vulgarity and high vocabulary, peppered with double-entendres and all wrapped…
Render Unto Caesar
Ezra Pound and Propertarianism have gotten me thinking a lot about debt recently (even to the point of poetry). The Christian personal-finance guru Dave Ramsey calls debt "slavery," and he…
Sleep Walking Elite: An Analysis
I enjoy writing about music from time to time, whether it's about a particular song, or a band, or the nature of music in general. Like many people, I listen…
Gold Enough
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,…
Caveats on Orwell
From almost six years back, Ed Smith has some interesting insight on the subject of deceptive speech and Orwell's Politics and the English Language: Orwell argues that “the great enemy of…
Politics and the English Language
By George Orwell Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we…