Since Jen and I have become vegan, we have been explaining our position and our reasoning to the people around us, and through our blogs, to the wider world, whatever that may be. What has been interesting to me is the gamut of reactions we have elicited from people.
Those reactions have run the gamut from [...]
Reactions to Veganism
The Proust Questionaire
The young Marcel Proust was asked to fill out questionnaires at two social events: one when he was 13, another when he was 20. Proust did not invent this party game; he is simply the most extraordinary person to respond to them. While I am not nearly the personage Marcel was, I too shall take [...]
Fun with the argumentum ad ignorantiam
Fun with the argumentum ad ignorantiam:
The Cult Of Work
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.
When I was young, my parents read me Aesop’s fable of ”The Ant and the Grasshopper,” wherein, as everyone knows, the [...]
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