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What is Justice?

December 14, 2021

The Question and Its ImportanceI was reading through Will Durant’s book The Story of Philosophy. The book is divided into sections on what the author

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Culture and Consciousness

December 13, 2021

This chapter (12) in The Hunter Gatherer’s Guide discusses the relation and tension of culture and consciousness.   As Weinstein and Heying define them:Culture is

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Becoming Adults

December 5, 2021

I’m reading A Hunter Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st century, by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. I regularly listen to their podcasts and always appreciate

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My Biological Mom

December 3, 2021

My biological mother passed away the day before thanksgiving. I thought I’d tell the story of how she came to be a known part of

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Orlando Furioso: Deception

November 27, 2021

Reading through Orlando Furioso right now. The 8th canto starts off: Oh quante sono incantatrici, oh quantiincantator tra noi, che non si sanno!Che con lor

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.