Category Archives: creative intelligence

That Mongrelized Language

Posted on December 4, 2023 by Jim Langcuster

One of the more clever memes currently making its rounds within social media depicts two elite Romans discussing how a mongrelized language spoken on the periphery of the Empire would replace Latin and Greek as the de facto language of … Continue reading →

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A Pandoric Human Improvisation

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Jim Langcuster

I finished a couple of degrees in communication without ever developing a keen fascination with language – until now, almost 40 years later. We depend on language. It is arguably the most indispensable part of what I have come to … Continue reading →

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A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

I have run across this image hundreds of times over the last half century – we all have. But a Quoran recently pointed out something I never considered: Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 crew member who snapped this picture as … Continue reading →

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Something Old, Something New

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

I never cease to be fascinated by stuff like this.  Futurist Kevin Kelley has stressed how facets of our technium, which is the term his has devised to describe our technological encasement, never go entirely extinct. Old Agricultural Age-technologies, for … Continue reading →

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Hoisted on Our Own Petard?

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

Whenever I read accounts about the impending deployment of the James Webb  Telescope, I am struck by one fact: that at least one facet of the cosmos (i.e., Homo sapiens) has evolved to the extent that it can now employ … Continue reading →

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A Nontheist Who Believes

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

At this stage of life, I consider myself – and only half jokingly – as a nontheist who believes in God. I borrowed and adapted this phrase from Frank Schaeffer, the son of famed evangelical theological Francis Schaeffer. Frank, author … Continue reading →

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Mutating Foundations of Existence

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

I have written a bit lately about autonomy, specifically what little autonomy we arguably possess as human beings. I have no intention of denigrating human freedom. I feel immensely fortunate for what freedom I have. Some of us, at least, … Continue reading →

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Are We Really “Condemned to be Free”?

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

The French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre initially contended that man is “condemned to be free.” I, for one, am not so convinced – and neither was even Sartre over the course of his career. As I have argued before, our … Continue reading →

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Reinventing Religion to Save Earth

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

Jamie Wheal, author and the founder of the Flow Genome Project, believes that humanity has reached a kind of impasse in the sense that we have been overwhelmed by the breakneck speed of human technological and scientific progress. And even … Continue reading →

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Webs of Culture

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

I think that I have mentioned a time or two a memory of visiting a rural Alabama’s farmer’s house many years ago and noticing that he or his spouse had arranged angel figurines and portraits of angels in their living … Continue reading →

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