The only two other persons I have told about this are my Delaware cousins, and I immediately said after “It feels so pretentious!” I am reading Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, and mostly because I don’t have anything else at hand (except Plato’s Republic, and which, like BG&E, is tedious). Nietzsche wrote in a different time, and of course, I only have benefit of him via a translator, as he wrote in German. He often writes in long paragraphs, and uses semicolons too often for my taste – how about shorter sentences? He makes points I (most) often don’t get, or even think a little too subtle for anyone’s taste, even mine.
Category: Randianism
Unexpected wisdom
I enjoy the works of C.J. Box, a writer who lives in Wyoming and has given us the character Joe Pickett.
Pickett is a game warden, and has never wanted to do anything else. He is also a man who, knowingly or not, thrives on the idea that people automatically underestimate him. He does not look for trouble, but trouble finds him, and in Box’s world, this trouble manifests in an endless assortment of villains that find their way to the wilderness of northern Wyoming. Pickett is not Rambo, and does not automatically come out on top of his engagements with these assorted bad guys. He suffers, gets lost, makes mistakes, gets shot and loses one truck and horse after another, only surviving by some sort of native intelligence that pushes him to do something that allows him to, in the end, survive and to be with his wife, Marybeth, and daughters Sheridan and Lucy.
Piece of Mindful 