Roger Scruton was a philosopher interested in both politics and aesthetics. He was also an advocate for traditional conservative policies and views. Roger died in 2020. This was Nassim Nicolas Taleb‘s tweet the day after he died. Now, I didn’t know who Roger Scruton was until this weekend. I’d never heard of him. Probably because…
Month: February 2022
Why a hamburger is art and how the Americans won the Culinary Olympics
The chef I studied under, when I still wanted to be a chef, had stories. All chefs do. They have stories about the crazy people they worked with, the insane dishes they prepared through the years, the shouting, the sweating, and the violence of creating with food. I was a chef for only a short…
What throwing chairs has to do with escalation and art
“Hey, Gerrit, you’re a knob!” I’m in high school. The person calling me a knob is Mark. We’re friends. He’s walking to class. I feign indignation and decide to retaliate. I’m overwhelmed by the feeling that I need to make my retort larger than life. In a 100th of a second I go through my…