The past is good to learn from. But what if people learn the wrong lessons, or try to recast themselves and their favored folks as more heroic than they were? Or, worse yet, what if people become rigidly prejudiced about the present and future due to clinging hyper-rationally to the past?
If this all sounds like too much of a downer, we’ve also got my favorite web comic, an essay about joy and happiness, and a fun animated video for Pi Day (3.14).
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Links mentioned in the episode are below …
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Griddle (hot takes)
From Substack, Rat Says, by Rat:
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Salad Bar (fresh links of interest)
“Trump’s Targeting of Thomas Massie Is a Self-Inflicted Wound — and a Gift to the Swamp” — https://republic.us/national-news/20128
“Covid: The New, “New Deal” Revisionism Is Already Starting” — https://mises.org/mises-wire/covid-new-new-deal-revisionism-already-starting
“The FTC's Andrew Ferguson Sounds Too Much Like Lina Khan” — https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2025/03/13/the_ftcs_andrew_ferguson_sounds_too_much_like_lina_khan_1097219.html
“There’s more to those colliding blocks that compute pi” — https://odysee.com/@3Blue1Brown:b/there's-more-to-those-colliding-blocks:1
From Substack, The Grey Robes, by Max Borders: “Tiers of Joy” — https://greyrobes.substack.com/p/tiers-of-joy
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Omelet Station (Bible study)
Second Sunday of Lent — https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031625.cfm
Luke 9:28b-36 — https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/9?28
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My own work I cited
Last week’s Sunday Buffet: “How Is This a Bad Thing?” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/how-is-this-a-bad-thing
The most recent Wednesday Wakeup: “My DOGE Tale: ‘I Don’t Work Here’ ” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/my-doge-tale-i-dont-work-here
The most recent premium subscriber post, FM Radio: “GNBC Book, p. 20-21: Station 3 – Jesus Falls the First Time: A Mystery to Pursue” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/gnbc-book-p-20-21
With David Gornoski: “Can You Resist ‘Utopia’ & ‘Escapism’?” — https://goodneighborbadcitizen.substack.com/p/can-you-resist-utopia-and-escapism
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