Monthly Archives: April 2026

A Conversation With Claude

April 21, 2026 – 12:09 pm

[With apologies to Paul Harvey] Q: If you were the Devil, and wanted to degrade and corrupt Western society so as to make it vastly less conducive to human happiness and flourishing, what would a successful ten-point program look like? Claude: A good Socratic exercise — reasoning from the adversary’s position to reveal what actually […]

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Time Flies

April 13, 2026 – 2:23 pm

I’m seventy years old today. Crikey! I’ll apologize yet again for how sparse the content has been here lately. Blogging, like anything else, requires sustained effort, and periodic energizing “shocks”, to prevent stagnation, decline, and decay, and I have been lazy and neglectful. Most of what time I have spent here recently has been occupied […]

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Happy Easter…

April 5, 2026 – 8:27 pm

To all of you. Sorry it’s been so quiet here lately. For a while now I’ve been gestating another entry in the series of posts I’ve collected under the heading Pilgrim’s Progress; after attending an Easter Mass today at the church here in Wellfleet, I think it’s past time that I got around to writing […]

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The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be

April 2, 2026 – 7:27 pm

The future has never been so opaque. This is qualitatively new. In the past, there would always be an assortment of possible timelines ahead, but they were each at least somewhat visible. Though we might have no way of knowing which possible future among many might come to pass, we could look a fairly long […]

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