I do not trust judges, as a category, nearly as far as I can throw them. Judges are, as a rule, biased, trained in secularism, steeped in governmental power, blind to or participant in abuse, deferential to the government, and
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Welcome to my blog! I’m Colson Potter, author with one book published at time of posting and more coming. This blog covers those topics I believe I can speak valuably upon: writing, politics, theology, philosophy, and the intersections of the four, to the glory of God.
A new article goes up every Monday; short stories and poems (as well as extras) go up when they are ready for public exposure or when I stumble across them in my computer six months later.
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Reform the Juries
I do not trust judges, as a category, nearly as far as I can throw them. Judges are, as a rule, biased, trained in secularism, steeped in governmental power, blind to or participant in abuse, deferential to the government, and unexceptionally intelligent. As a rule, the jury is by far the superior choice; juries are…
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I Finished Reading Dune (A Review)
I have now read Dune. I first conceived the ambition more than a year ago, and at last I have done it. So, do I recommend it? Well, yes, but not without reserve. Dune is written with undoubted skill and artistry, and I’ll be thinking about it in the future, both for artistic reasons and…
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Hypocrisy, Insight, and Myopia: Nietzsche on Art
In philosophy’s halls, relatively few provide reason to be remembered as artists, not just philosophers. Solomon, Plato, the author of Job, these have that distinction. The second half of the nineteenth century brought its own candidate: Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche, unlike most famous philosophers, had real literary skill, skill he applied to create the narrative elements…