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The Slow Death of Common Sense

Cameron Blewett — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:00:00 +0000

There was a time when common sense was, well… common. You didn’t need a policy, procedure, or committee to decide what was obviously right or plainly wrong. People used to trust their gut, read the room, and make decisions based on lived experience and practical reasoning. Somewhere along the way, we lost that. We’ve become ... Read more

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Accomplish Something Good With Hard Work

Cameron Blewett — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 23:00:00 +0000

If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.~ Musonius Rufus Why do we so often seek those quick fix pleasures nothing that we will feel guilty about it once the ... Read more

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Don’t Just Say You Have Read Books

Cameron Blewett — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:30:00 +0000

Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized ... Read more

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Don’t Study To Simply Make Money

Cameron Blewett — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:30:51 +0000

You want to know my attitude towards liberal studies. Well, I have no respect for any study whatsoever if its end is the making of money. Such studies are to me unworthy ones. They involve the putting out of skills to hire, and are only of value in so fas as they may develop the ... Read more

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Making Things Harder Than They Need To Be

Cameron Blewett — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:30:39 +0000

What is this obsession we all have with making things harder than they need to be? Most of the time it comes because a new industry pops up that can profit from making things more complex. Though do they really need to be? Sadly, cars have become so computerised and complex now, that we are ... Read more

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If It’s Not The Right Thing

Cameron Blewett — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:30:07 +0000

If it’s not the right thing to do, never do it; If it is not the truth, never say it. Keep your impulses in hand. ~ Marcus Aurelius (Meditations XII:17) Imagine how much simpler life would be if we all followed this bit of advice?

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Refrain From Following Those Who Crave Attention

Cameron Blewett — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:30:42 +0000

Let me give you, though, this one piece of advice: refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement, by doing certain things which are calculated to give rise to comment on your appearance or way of living generally.– Seneca

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