Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself

Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself

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Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself
Vesperisms: The Art of Thinking for Yourself
I Have Set Before You Life and Death

I Have Set Before You Life and Death

Choose life.

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Gone are the distinctions we have been used to for a hundred years—left/right, liberal/conservative. With recent events and the reactions to them, we have achieved full life/death polarity.

That “polarity” does not equal a “binary”, per se, and it does not mean it is simple. For example, though the pacifist-almost-anarchist in me hates to admit it, I do …

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