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Saturday, June 20, 2020

Man, the Endangered Species

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Alternative title: Science Giveth and Scientism Taketh Away Just a couple of points this morning. We'll begin with an aphorism: An ed...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

Resisting the Resistance

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There are degrees political sickness, from neurosis to psychosis. I suppose there's also political normality, but it's so rare as t...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The Great Awokening, or Satan's Own Spiritual Revival

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Let's try to knock another one off the desk, this time The Politics of Truth , a collection of essays that could scarcely be more timely...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

The Science of Political Religions

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Here's another book I think we can knock out in a hurry, A Government of Laws , a collection of Voegelinian essays on subjects ranging f...
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Monday, June 15, 2020

The Devil, the Apocalypse, and Other Nuisances

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By now we're all familiar with the Mondello-Hildebrand Effect, whereby the subject of a post escapes the page and proceeds to comment up...
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Saturday, June 13, 2020

The Idiot's Guide to Your Head, or A Cartography of Spirit

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I've never been this backed up in the brain. Usually there's a rough balance of tirade between input and output, but at present I...
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Friday, June 12, 2020

No Amount of Walking Adds Up to a Leap

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Have we hit the bottom (line) of the cosmos, or is there further to go? Yes and no. Although the truth of reality isn't subject to cha...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Upped Jumped the Devil

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At risk of captaining the good ship Obvious, let's call this crisis what it is: spiritual warfare , except with only one side fighting. ...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2020

On the Acceleration of Politico-Cultural Insanity

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The previous post ended with the question: "how did the obvious become controversial, and how did such anti-human buffoonery become the...
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Sunday, June 07, 2020

No Lives Matter

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Unless God exists, in which case all lives not only matter but are of infinite value. Indeed, where do people think this radical idea cam...
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Friday, June 05, 2020

Here Come the New Gods, Same as the Old Gods

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We're in the midst of defining our terms, and doing so -- unlike our slipslopery competitors, whose allegiance is to power and not truth...
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Thursday, June 04, 2020

My Cosmos is Bigger than Yours

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The order of history is the history of order. Let's try to understand what Voegelin means by this palindromic gnome, or gnomic palindr...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Methinks Thou Dost Protest and Loot Too Much

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Yesterday's bewilderness adventure concluded with the alibi that "this is such a big subject, in a way the biggest of all." ...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Apocalypse Now & Always, or Listening to the Barbarians

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Yes, what are they trying to say? They keep insisting they want to be "heard," but not one of them -- protester, rioter, or loote...
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Monday, June 01, 2020

Ideas Have Riotous Consequences

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People generally think of ideas as good or bad, correct or incorrect, brilliant or stupid. They don't -- especially in our age of stupid...
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