Reading Time 🕘: 21 minutes A quick scan of the ever-useful Corpus of Contemporary American English confirms that in our time, the word artificial suggests fakery, or at best a second-rate substitute for the real thing, and often something potentially carcinogenic or otherwise harmful. To be happy and healthy, we prefer things natural. Or consider the devious cousin of artificial,… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 19 minutes Artificial Intelligence. That was the topic. I ‘d collected notes and was sitting down to explore them when a decidedly non-artificial intelligence grabbed my attention: It was none other than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and here’s what he led me to think about: Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. RATIONS… Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 14 minutes “The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.” Deuteronomy 28:20 Glad Tidings of Great Joy…. Continue reading
Reading Time 🕘: 11 minutes The White House had been in the hands of a liberal progressive who infuriated religious conservatives…As the contest intensified, the nation became polarized as it had not been in decades. In the middle of it all, a foreign power staked a claim.
Continue reading