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Should a philosopher be interested in the trajectory of civilizations, from their rise to dominance in a region, and then the reasons why a civilization seems to lose its collective capacity and go into

No Cthulhu, Bokrug! Just as paralyzing, the terror! Back in 1920 H.P. Lovecraft published a short story entitled "The Doom That Came to Sarnath." It was one of his "dream cycle" stories

In this digital age, writing in defense of pen and paper — of writing things down instead of recording them digitally — may seem strange. I hope I can defend its merits in this short piece. When I was

Continuing right where we left off two days ago. I only saw one upvote from that post. C'mon people, this can't be that tedious (although a Facebook reader suggested to me that I was already taxing people's

Steven here initially, to thank you in advance for reading. If you find this interesting, please upvote. Comments welcome. Still not sure how to format in here, so it may look funky like the first one

Well, that I know of. I'll start my first Steemit post by saying that I'm not big on long introductions. Long essays? That's another matter, and another story. I'm a writer, and I've written a novel. I've