What then?

What then?

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Dogs Remind Us of What Matters in Life
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What WWI Can Teach Us About the Meaning of Life
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Why We Should Suffer In Silence
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How Dogs Make Us Ancient Again
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How WWII Frogmen Can Cure Modern Despair
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Why We Should End Self-Care And Embrace Hardship
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Why We Should Stop Saving Time
Or the meaninglessness found in ease
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Lessons Written In Blood, Wisdom Written In Ink
What we can learn from Epictetus and a Vietnamese helicopter pilot
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How To Find Self-Command In An Age Of Anxiety
And the threat of never knowing ourselves
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On Ph.D.s Who Can Win a Bar Fight
And why this combination is crucial
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What The Grey Hairs Of A Dog Teach Us
The dog's gift of wisdom.
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Why We Should End Self-Care And Embrace Hardship
How self-care is a warning that we are not living in accordance with nature
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How War Teaches Us To Live - And Eat - With Gratitude
Or eating watermelon in a war zone with Ernst Jünger
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Why Chivalry Will Never Die
From J.R.R. Tolkien, to C.S. Lewis, to hunter-gatherers
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What A Green Beret Can Teach Us About Helplessness
Or how to learn self-command
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What then?
What then?
Original philosophical essays on hardship, ease, war, pre-state, self-rule, and dogs | Former Navy SEAL
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