Website of Joshua McGee
I was mathematically talented as a child and teen. One time, growing up, I was gushing to my father about how much I loved music. “Of course you like music!” he replied. “Music is math!” I immediately corrected him. “No, Dad,” I…
Continue reading →“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody…
Continue reading →Today, walking home: Teen-I-don’t-know: Werral d’weed at? Me: What? Teen: Werral da weed at? Me: Where all the WEED at? Teen: Yeah. How much you got on you? Me: Um … none? Teen: But you got your Rockstar [Energy Drink]. Me: Yeah.…
Continue reading →Walking by a bus stop today, I was addressed by a woman waiting there: Woman: “Excuse me, sir?” Me: “Yes?” Woman: “Can I ask you a question?” Me: “Sure.” Woman: “[Hesitantly:] Decent people don’t make fun of other people, right?” Me: “Riiiiight.”…
Continue reading →Full text of the essay “Imagination and Radicals” by Grant Allen, collected in Post-Prandial Philosophy (1894), on the topic of conservatism vs. radicalism. Well worth a read. IMAGINATION AND RADICALS Conservatism, I believe, is mainly due to want of imagination. In saying…
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