We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (h/t Eunomia)
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- The Reasons for My Concern
Comprehensive background statement that explains the historical cultural framework that informs the posts I put up on this blog. - How Liberalism Got Its Bad Name
How the sixties put Liberals in an impossible situation, and were blamed for chickens come home to roost that were hatched from eggs laid in the 1870s. - Shrewd as Serpents, Guileless as Doves
Meditation on Steinbeck's 'East of Eden' - Disembedding and Theosis
On holy fools and Charles Taylor's idea of "disembeddeness" of the "buffered self". - Retrieval
If the modern period was primarily about rejecting the restrictions that came with an authoritarian, theocratic, feudal hierarchical society, the postmodern period will in large part be about retrieving what the modern period rejected. - From Outer to Inner; From Given to Chosen
My Barfieldian take on what Charles Taylor calls "disembeddedness." - Latent Authoritarians
Talks about the role of the principle of susidiarity in combating the top-downism of the right and the left. - Getting it Right; Getting it Wrong
Our judgement are mostly irrational, and that's ok. Someone with good judgment is someone with skill in the discernment of spirits whether he thinks of it that way or not. - Believing
What we believe shapes how we live, whether our beliefs are superficial or profound. Whatever narrative we ultimately choose opens up certain possibilities and closes off others; it shapes what we can see and what we are blind to. - Does Christianity Have a Future?
Standing in history around the year 100 and looking forward, Christianity would have seemed a very weak candidate to emerge as the dominant cultural narrative of the West. But it did. - Puritans Running Amok
There are both dark and light sides to Puritanism. - The Hypertropied Eye
Modernity and its eye centeredness created the conditions for the possibility of individualism and critical reflection, but it also led to the gradual disenchantment of the world which became reified. - Dying Traditions
Living traditions survive in the U.S. only so long as they can resist acculturation into the larger modern American milieu. The economic pressures working to break down such subcultures are terrific. - Zombie Traditionalism I
There's no living tradition in America. We have instead dead traditional forms inhabited by the undead spirit of consumer capitalism. See last paragraph for links to Zombie Traditionalism II & III. - "Conservative" Doesn't Mean What You Think
It means being a New Deal social democrat. - Religion & Politics
Basic argument that in a globallizing world, you need to keep the cultural mostly separate from the political sphere. In a pluralistic world everyone, even people of faith, has to learn to speak 'secularese' in the political sphere. - GOP Secret Weapon: Myth
The Dems should not abuse the power of mythic narratives the way the GOP does; but they need to learn how to use it to help people to imagine who they are, where they come from, and where they are going. - Faith & Truthiness
The difference between "truthiness" and faith is that the first is motivated by a need to reinforce one's complacency and the second by a challenge to risk to go beyond what makes sense or what is often conventionally acceptable. - Neo-Jacobins
The Neo-cons are really neo-Trotskyites who have little or nothing to do with traditional conservatism. - Part I: Sinning Originally
First of five parts on the foundational Christian mythos that defines why we're here and what our task is. - Philosophers, Artists, Saints
And so one of the great signs of the decadence of our culture is that genuine prodigies of truth, beauty, and goodness are no longer recognized or honored. They have always been rare, but now they have become invisible.
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