thoughts in and out of season
Can the internet and traditionalism get along? On the face of it, the net sums up the most extreme features of the modern world. It destroys particular connections by making everything equally present to everything else. With all things in the same setting and position, the meaning and significance of things has nowhere to establish … More ...
“Americans, and American women in particular, are officially on notice that post-election, the Republican war on reproductive rights has entered an ominous new phase”
How is this so?, exactly.
Are not Americans; the Doctors and pharmacists?
Is this not a “war”, that could be won, without “ANY” discrimination?
By forcing my will on anyone; is … More ...
Here’s the latest on mutual respect and public neutrality, as filtered through what now passes for American public thought: a U.S. appeals court says that law schools, which have never seen a federal antidiscrimination rule on faculty hiring they don’t like, can ignore a federal law that says they can’t discriminate against military recruiters and … More ...
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A story from Poland available [url=http://www.koliber.net/index/index.php?action=show&object=article&id=2654]here[/url] on how a conservative group protesting against the discrimination against men, against the unborn, against the wealthy (through high taxes) and against people with traditional Christian views on morality was [b]banned[/b] from a declaredly pro-tolerance, pro-equality, pro-democracy and pro-freedom “Equality March”.
The march was organized by a cluster of … More ...
Is there such a thing as “natural society”? The difference between the traditional and modernist outlook is that the former believes in it and the latter does not, at least if “nature” is taken to refer to anything substantial and not simply to content-free abstractions like freedom and equality. The traditional standpoint is that basic … More ...
A point raised in my last entry, that the realization that social engineering isn’t possible makes nonsense of a lot of current political, social and religious thought, is worth expanding. One implication is that a “top down” understanding of subsidiarity, in which government watches to see if families or whatever are doing what they should, … More ...
A few odds and ends run into on the web:
The feature of transnational institutions that will save us from the worst of their ambition to reconstruct us is their irredeemable inefficiency and corruption. It’s not something that will go away because of better management or appeals to abstract global ideals. Management is secondary, and generalized ideals are good fallbacks but can’t carry the … More ...
“Subsidiarity” is a basic concept of Catholic social teaching. according to which “a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the … More ...