Tag: sanity

Dancers at the End of Time, Part Three: A Mortal Splendor

John Michael Greer389 Comments

Some of my critics like to insist that I never admit that I’m wrong. Those readers who have been following me for any length of time know that this isn’t true, but like so many of the fashionable distortions of our age, it points to a truth it doesn’t actually express. What offends those critics,…

Dancers at the End of Time, Part Two: “Facts are the Enemies of Truth”

John Michael Greer385 Comments

Last week, in Part One of this post, we explored the strange way that many people these days seem to have lost the ability to think clearly, or at all, about certain political questions.  Insights from philosopher Alan Jacobs and a thoughtful blogger who goes by “Jane” helped us close in on the mental dysfunction…