In greed and meanness, that is. This speech might be full of cliches, but it envisions a cliche world I wouldn't mind to live in. Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
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- Why the Coming Common Core State Standards Are a Technocratic Disaster in the Making
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- Walker Percy's Postmodern Catholicism
In the present age the survivor of theory and consumption becomes a wayfarer in the desert, like St. Anthony: which is to say, open to signs - Metaxis
We are in-between beings whether we like it or not. We become substantive to the degree that we hold our opposite tendencies, especially the spirit vs. matter tension, in balance and to integrate them. - 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' - Latent Authoritarians
Talks about the role of the principle of susidiarity in combating the top-downism of the right and the left. - 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. - 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.
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