The Daily Eudemon

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The full-court breakdown of Joe Rogan has begun.

Neil Young started it when he demanded Spotify remove his music because Rogan permits a compelling COVID narrative to exist that violates the official narrative. The compelling COVID narrative is supposedly wrong and because we’re in a pandemic (which is waning, according to my most-recent issue of The Kiplinger Letter), it’s dangerous. Because it’s dangerous, it must be stopped.

That’s how the Neil Young logic runs.

And now we’re learning that he has significant financial ties to Pfizer. I guess Pfizer owns his music catalog, which presumably means there’s a financial symbiosis between Neil Young and Pfizer, but the heck if I know.

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Synopsis: Owen Barfield wrote about the importance of pre-rational thought and language. It heavily influenced Tolkien’s work. Iain McGilchrist has written about the same thing in The Master and His Emissary and the importance of the brain’s right hemisphere. Complete show notes. 

Why do the spiritual masters unanimously seem to insist on that lame piece of advice: “Live in the present moment"?

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How to Break a Maniac

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Essences become meaningless in both a perfect and marred world.

I went to Las Vegas last week, spending four nights at the iconic Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas. I spent Tuesday evening walking from the Nugget to the Strat, where I surveyed Vegas from 100 stories high for two hours.

The next morning, I covered five miles of downtown Las Vegas on foot, covering huge swaths of area.

On Thursday, I walked the length of the Strip, clocking in over 32,000 steps.

I took a two-hour bus tour and talked with the guide. I talked with Uber drivers. I chatted with all sorts of workers, from a farmers market vendor a half-mile north of Fremont Street to bartenders who make those frozen concoctions along the Strip.

I made notes. I came home and surfed the web. I bounced observations off my traveling companion (wife).

I then put all this into a giant blender and poured out these observations.