The Free Press on Tucker Carlson
Bari Weiss' Free Press says Tucker Carlson is a loon. Me? I'm not sure what to think.
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Excerpts from Joseph Bottum's "Christians and Postmoderns"
[T]hough we cannot revert, we nonetheless have resources that may help us to advance beyond these late times. The modern project that attacked the Middle Ages has itself been under attack for some time. For some time, hyper-modern writers have brought to bear against their modern past the
"Catholic is About as Sane as You Get"
Jordan Peterson, interviewing James Lindsay. Go to 39:08: Peterson:
One of the things I learned from you is that Catholic was about as sane as you get. So you destroy that, if you think the Catholics are insane, you wait until you see what that's protecting you
Community Gardens
This is an odd little piece. The author applauds gardening because it is a great example of Joseph Pieper's "active leisure." That's a great observation.
But she puts it in the context of community gardens, which, the author says, lead people to sharing produce,
What are the Four Parts of Existence Strikes Back?
Preamble: Wisdom wants to know reality. A region of reality (“the Tao”) isn’t knowable. Wisdom respects reality’s unknowability while pursuing reality nonetheless. This unending pursuit reached its apex in the 13th century, then the pursuit started to decline. Modernity was the rejection of respect for the Tao. Postmodernity
Psychedelia
I didn't realize the City of San Francisco canceled its 4/20 celebration this year due to lack of funding (its budget blown on free booze and needles for the homeless, I suppose) and a lack of corporate sponsorships.
Corporate sponsorships? In the heart of the Haight?
Nonetheless,
Foucault was a Pedophile?
And introducing one of the themes of Part III of The Existence Strikes Back project: The rise of the irrational.
Day Drinking
This NYT piece had great potential, none of it actualized. It was just the same palaver: empty stomach increases effect of alcohol, the sun further dehydrates you, yada and yads.
I think the cue ("Why do we like to drink in the afternoon?") could've led to
The Death of Literature?
If no one can focus long enough to read it, no one is going to pay for it. If no one pays for it, no one can write it. That, I believe, is the steady theme of this lovely literary essay that doesn't merely lament the state of
Central Park: A Beautiful Travelogue
Samuel Johnson put London and life itself on the same platform, writing:
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.
I often think the same thing can be said of New York City. It, at least, seems that way to me, a foreigner vis-a-vis