tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-792313241862520060.post7608234980243049577..comments2023-06-11T05:35:47.689-07:00Comments on Letters to Hannah: Westworld: a reviewJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02037654579970701695noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-792313241862520060.post-6700823441541441532017-01-17T00:25:59.195-08:002017-01-17T00:25:59.195-08:00No worries.
Working as a research assistant and a...No worries.<br /><br />Working as a research assistant and a writer, I read an inordinate amount of slapped-together journalism, so when I come across something I won't forget the next day I tend to pay attention. I've found many of the writers I have had most fun with are lurking on small and obscure sites. <br /><br />About silly philosophers. Apart from the wannabes, Nietzsche has been the silliest I've read. I can't determine whether I was just too young to understand or too smart to buy it, but it definitely seemed like I was reading a guy I wouldn't want to spend a lot of time with. <br /><br />Anyhow, thanks for the Chesterton and Johnson recommendations. <br /><br />- KierenKierenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147561074628588704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-792313241862520060.post-35891975645429457712017-01-13T08:58:50.108-08:002017-01-13T08:58:50.108-08:00Always love to hear I've got a new reader! Ju...Always love to hear I've got a new reader! Just a pro tip: if you're really addicted to Chesterton and you've already read Orthodoxy and Heretics and What's Wrong With the World and The Everlasting Man and Eugenics, try picking up used copies of his essays with the Illustrated London News -- he's got thousands of pages so you'll never run out, and he's just as good as his books and almost never repeats himself. A gold mine. Macaulay's critical and historical essays are not to be missed: some of the best works on liberty I've ever had the privilege of reading. <br /><br />Illustrated London News: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=chesterton+illustrated+london+news&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Achesterton+illustrated+london+news<br /><br />That being said, Sam Johnson has some boring essays that only apply to high society of the 18th century, but I've found that if you skip most of the essays addressed TO the Rambler, you can miss most of the boring ones and get right to his essays on psychology and virtue. The man is not as fun a writer as Chesterton or Macaulay -- but he gets right to the heart of philosophy itself, and tackles most of the serious subjects in ways that are extremely difficult to dispute. I like him because I've read lots of philosophers, and most of them get silly. Johnson is not silly. His head is on straighter than almost anyone else I've ever read. Montaigne (and probably Seneca after him) is the next most enjoyable read for the subjects of plain old humanity, but his are more easily taken as opinion, whereas I find Johnson to be speaking from a position of greater authority. <br /><br />Thanks for reading, and especially for writing. I hope this comment finds you well.<br /><br />-JJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02037654579970701695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-792313241862520060.post-51665334397456997972017-01-12T12:46:51.758-08:002017-01-12T12:46:51.758-08:00Hi Jeremy,
I first saw this blog after reading yo...Hi Jeremy,<br /><br />I first saw this blog after reading your piece on Milo featured on AmericanThinker. Since then I have kept coming back. You have got me hooked on Chesterton and I currently have Macaulay's History of England sitting in my collection. I had already read Rand. <br /><br />So I go looking at Samuel Johnson's Rambler and find it quite confusing. Maybe I just by chance read his poor essays, but I found them ... to be blunt, a little pointless and meandering. Am I missing something here. Any specific essay recommendations? <br /><br />- Kieren<br /><br /> Kierenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147561074628588704noreply@blogger.com