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SPOTLIGHT: Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (1961; 1970, Faber & Faber) & Andrei Tarkovsky (1972, Mosfilm)

April 28, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
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REVIEW: The MANIAC – Benjamin Labatut (Penguin, 2023)

February 22, 2025 Merri
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BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
Tolkien art literature
BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
AI NPC machine learning
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society

December 16, 2023 Merri
COVID conspiracy theory
ClassicCommentary

The Inverted Conspiracy Theory

August 7, 2021 Merri
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Commentary
February 3, 2022 Merri

What We Lost When We Abandoned the Hearth

The hearth provided a common space for the family that was replaced by television first, and then the internet. It must be reclaimed.

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Commentary
January 7, 2022 Merri

Brief Genealogy of the Midwit

We usually consider midwit behavior related to IQ, but is it a natural result of reasoning capacity or a choice based one’s relation to media and its consumption?

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Commentary
December 31, 2021 Merri

Carrot and Stick

Banning pornography would be a major victory for the right, but what does that entail? And might our ruling elites beat us to the punch?

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Commentary
December 15, 2021 Merri

Spinning a Cosmological Yarn

A brief meditation and exegesis of cosmology, the world and the afterlife using a tapestry as our subject.

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Commentary
December 5, 2021 Merri

Darwinism Versus the Creation Science

Darwinian ideology has become a force of demoralization. The conflict between evolutionary theory and creationism is deeper than mere matters of scientific opinion.

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Commentary
November 14, 2021 Merri

One Year Later: Sic Semper Terroristae!

American political tension nears all-time highs, and the term ‘national divorce’ crops up now and again in media. We look at what that means, reflecting on how the past year has continued the trends of 2020.

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Commentary
October 23, 2021 Merri

Sexual Morality and the Political Divide

The right prides itself on being anti-revolutionary, but to what degree does this extend to sexual morality? To best understand this, we must briefly consider a Catholic theology of the family.

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Commentary
September 20, 2021 Merri

Valuing Silence

Silence is necessary for the development of one’s interior life. Here we address how best to understand it, and where to seek it.

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Commentary
September 13, 2021 Merri

The Wachowskis Ruined an Entire Generation of Nerds

The transitioning of the Wachowski brothers prompted a reevaluation of The Matrix in light of transgenderism, and this shift reveals something sinister about the sexual revolution.

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Commentary
August 22, 2021 Merri

Take Me Home, Afghani Roads

With Kabul a mess and the Afghanistan withdrawal underway, we address the relevant aspects of the occupation and what to take away from it.

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