thoughts in and out of season
A bit of an oddity: “Women Exploiting Women”. The name of the article is uninformative, but the details are fascinating and I wish there were more of them. It seems that several successful professional women in Northern California took it into their heads to set up a pyramid scheme based on big payoffs, birthday … More ...
Rounding out the conception of “human rights” in a part of the world in which you can be criminally prosecuted for racism if you call Islam “the stupidest religion,” U.K prisoners have won their claim that hardcore porn is a human right. It’s all part of their right to “receive information,” you see. So … More ...
Conservatives complain very forcefully, but aren’t as good at saying what they want. Unless we can say what we want, however, it will be hard to make clear to others or even ourselves what we’re doing or why anyone should go along with it. So here, for comment, is an initial sketch of an answer … More ...
If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of the European left, here’s a piece worth reading: Florence builds a bridge to a brave new social paradise. Say what you want about postmodern irony, simple faith is still whole and entire. People can’t live without it.
Traditionalists see limits to the regenerative qualities of capitalism, but it’s still got advantages over the politically-correct welfare state. A reader sends an instance from Down Under: Work aid better than welfare, according to aboriginal leader Pearson.
Here’s a link to a couple of comments I made at another blog I maintain in which I bring back the theory of contemporary advanced liberalism as a gnostic heresy. I suppose it’s not exactly gnosticism, though. The gnostics (it is said) believed this world is evil, while liberals as liberals believe only that it … More ...
Now there’s a title that should make this entry even more crowd-pleasing than others I’ve posted recently. Still, I feel the need to mull over some basics, and those who get bored can skip entries.
Anyway, “essentialism” is considered a big sin among a lot of educated and intelligent people today. It seems to be … More ...
I wonder whether what these women are doing in Piero’s Discovery and Proof of the True Cross constitutes “full, conscious, and active participation”? One guy’s doing everything, everyone else is just watching, and he’s not paying the slightest attention to the audience or even facing them. I call it hopelessly bad liturgy.
So now that I’ve decided that Christ is a sign of contradiction and that we should “accept and pass on to others the whole of the truth that sets men free,” what next? Sounds hugely ambitious. Still, everything has to be put in its setting and grand plans do that. And I suppose the idea … More ...
A look around the net confirms that mainstream and liberal religion is instinctively left-wing, traditional and orthodox religion right-wing. The exceptions usually seem a little artificial, more a matter of sticking with a theory than immediate unselfconscious perception of how things are.
I suppose the reason things sort out that way is that both mainstream … More ...
