Notes, opinions, & divers

Sep 29, 2022

On Patriarcy

As part of a project to archive my old blog, Threat Quality Press, I’ve been sorting through a bunch of trash posts trying to find if there’s anything worth re-visiting. Much to my surprise, some of it really is worth looking at again, either because it was prescient, or maybe because it was perennial…

Chris Braak

May 23, 2022

Order Through Decentralized Terror

There are, let’s say, basically four things that you have to think about when you decide to make a…

Chris Braak

May 12, 2022

Ross Douthat Never Stops

Okay, so, it’s true that since Roe was handed down, a bunch of things happened. The divorce rate went up, marriage…

Chris Braak

Mar 29, 2022

Notes on Cancel Culture and Florida’s Anti-Trans Kid Bill

Ben Shapiro says that the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” in Florida isn’t about prohibiting kids from being gay, it’s about giving parents the power to keep their kids from learning about Sexual Ideology —

Chris Braak

Feb 7, 2022

The Culture War Is the Class War

folks were sharing this the other day and I said that I didn’t agree with the sentiment of it, and Bob Weick asked me why; in my experience, Bob is a good faith actor and when he asks a question like that it’s because he really does want to know the answer, and so I…

Chris Braak

Aug 12, 2020

The Problems of Free Will

Here we go, here’s the big one. One of the big ones? I think maybe the biggest one. Of all the different things you can do with philosophy the only one that’s really important is: what am I supposed to do now? And the question of “Free Will” — do we have it, what is it, &c — is…

Chris Braak

Aug 12, 2020

Mind Puzzles; Paradoxes of Vagueness

Hey everyone it’s me again, been a long time (like three years?). I have another kid now. But my commitment to PHILOSOPHY remains the same — that is to say, diffident and haphazard.

Chris Braak

Jan 2, 2019

A Brief Digression

As you can see, I’ve been taking a break from my usual work on this (for like a year! Hahaha, a “break”) so I don’t know if it technically counts as a digression when I write something that isn’t in line with that, but I feel like it’s a digression and that’s what I’m calling it. I want to talk…

Chris Braak

Aug 9, 2018

John Locke and What Makes a Man a Person

Today’s reading is from John Locke, and about The Prince and the Cobbler, and how we…

Chris Braak

May 19, 2017

Mind Puzzles Part II How Can There Be This Many Puzzles

Christ. Okay. The question here is, “if there is red on one side, then the number on the other side is even,” but it does not say “if and ONLY IF there is red on one side, then the number on the other side is even.” So the statement…