A faithful correspondent has alerted us to an interesting essay published by the Stone blog at the New York Times, and authored by Iraq war veteran and writer Roy Scranton. Below, we offer several excerpts, with images and counterpoint added by DP:
BARREL OF THE FUTURE
MIRROR IMAGE
Tracking the citations, we provide the full context from the mother text, Hagakure:
MAP OF THE WAY
SUBJECT FOR MEDITATION
Returning to Scranton:
Here, we pause to recall a well-known passage (italics added for emphasis) from J.R. McNeill’s Something New Under the Sun:
SIGNATURE EXPERIMENT OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
And finally, the last three paragraphs from Scranton, in which he underscores the crucial philosophical crisis:
Desperado Philosophy 