{"id":2,"date":"2010-03-02T22:08:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-04-14T02:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T02:33:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-830\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/photo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/photo.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Hi. I&#8217;m Avery and this is my blog.<\/p>\n<p><b>Some of my posts from 2009 to 2013<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2009: I became increasingly critical of &#8220;religious studies&#8221; as a means of understanding premodern society. I also read Nietzsche for class, something I had been extremely reluctant to do.<\/li>\n<li>3\/2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2010\/03\/religious-studies-the-future-of-an-illusion\/\">\u201cReligious Studies\u201d: The Future of an Illusion<\/a> &#8211; My declaration of independence from the academy. This is the final report I presented for my religion BA.<\/li>\n<li>During spring break I started reading through all the books on Buddhism in the library, and also pulled out Spengler.<\/li>\n<li>5\/2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2010\/05\/ahistory\/\">Ahistory<\/a> &#8211; An early reading of Spengler, tentatively finding a truth in the India he dismissed. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2010\/10\/ahistory-part-2\/\">part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6\/2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2010\/06\/my-global-consciousness-before-jet\/\">My Global Consciousness Before JET<\/a> &#8211; My post-graduation reasoning for why I chose Japan. Note the academic buzzwords.<\/li>\n<li>My first year in Japan was spent in a state of total bliss and I did not return to intellectual problems.<\/li>\n<li>6\/2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2011\/06\/mystics-and-trainspotters\/\">Mystics and Trainspotters<\/a> &#8211; A description of the hesitation towards picking a side in the left-right divide which characterized my attitude during this first year. This was also a major barrier toward achieving any goals in Japan.<\/li>\n<li>7\/2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2011\/07\/mysticism-and-strength\/\">Mysticism and Strength<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2011\/10\/overtures-to-the-white-cargo-cults-2007-2011\/\">Overtures to the White Cargo Cults, 2007-2011<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Over winter 2011 I went home to America and saw an Evola book belonging to one of my friends who had been reading him for quite some time. I flipped through it and thought it absurd at the time, but after persuasion from him I read Evola myself in March 2012.<\/li>\n<li>5\/2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2012\/05\/julius-evola-vs-christopher-hitchens\/\">Julius Evola vs. Christopher Hitchens<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6\/2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amerika.org\/social-reality\/who-killed-society\/\">Who Killed Society?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6\/2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=4338\">Players and Pugilists<\/a> at Gornahoor.net<\/li>\n<li>I started reading Gu\u00e9non after writing this essay.<\/li>\n<li>6\/2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2012\/06\/evola-has-no-sense-of-humor-and-thats-just-wrong\/\">Evola Has No Sense of Humor, and That\u2019s Just Wrong<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July to December 2012 was spent writing my book <em>Parahistory<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>1\/2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=5646\">How to Choose a Religion<\/a> at Gornahoor.net<\/li>\n<li>2\/2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2013\/02\/the-tao-of-the-east-and-the-last-samurais-testament\/\">The Tao of the East and the Last Samurai\u2019s Testament<\/a> (translation)<\/li>\n<li>2\/2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?tag=okawa-shumei\">The Political Philosophy of Confucianism<\/a> (translation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I&#8217;m Avery and this is my blog. Some of my posts from 2009 to 2013 2009: I became increasingly critical of &#8220;religious studies&#8221; as a means of understanding premodern society. I also read Nietzsche for class, something I had been extremely reluctant to do. 3\/2010: \u201cReligious Studies\u201d: The Future of an Illusion &#8211; My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}