Tag: Reed College

• Chuang Tzu Comic

  More than half a lifetime ago I was a student at a very expensive liberal arts college called Reed. I was not a good student. The college is in Portland Oregon and the city was beautiful at the time. I could wander freely because I was also in the military and looked more dangerous than…

  Mark

  April 9, 2025

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  army, carpenters, Chuang Tzu, comic booke, Reed College, uselessness, virtue

• The New Puritans

  A lot has been said about the concept of woke. It is nebulous enough that those who oppose it and those who embrace it have different assessments of what it actually means to be woke. To me it seems like a new puritanism. Woke things are looked through the lenses of critical race and gender…

  Mark

  December 2, 2024

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  DWM, equality, history, identity, intersectionality, merit, misogyny, new puritans, oppressors, racism, Reed College, social engineering, woke