Introduction: So Donald Trump has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination, and this sets up any number of miscomponderables. We shall have to think this through, you and I. The ...
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That Pink Stuff
The Problem Lies Elsewhere
“An inability to learn truth from beauty is not beauty’s problem.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 187
Always a Trade Off
An Irrelevant World
“Poetry today huddles in its prescribed little ghettos—the sentimentalism of greeting cards and cupboard poetry, the small clutch of arcane poetry journals with circulations of thirteen, self-absorbed adolescents scribbling pages of navel-gazing free verse, and nationally-ignored poet laureates. That about covers the world of poetry.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 185
Faux Omniscience
“Our ability to get our words anywhere in the world within seconds, our ability to hit the remote when we are tired of what is happening in London and want to go to Hong Kong, our ability to see the world at a glance—all this creates an illusion of omniscience. This is strong wine for weak heads.”
The Cultural Mind, p 183
So the Fact You Are Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not After You . . .
Introduction: So we just now learned that the FBI had at least 8 agents inside the Proud Boys during the course of the J6 debacle. We also know that the FBI was up to their necks in that Pinky and ...
Heckling the Center from the Circumference
“The dishonesty of the whole endeavor is what causes conservative believers to adopt our classic and traditional tone—that of shrill—which we have used for so long it has almost become an art form among us. We have been cordoned off, and our response is to dance impatiently in place while heckling unbelief from our assigned place on the periphery.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 180
Mid November Letters, With a Chance of Rain
Letter to the Editor: What with the recent Dave Chappelle bit on SNL, you sure picked the wrong week to mock people who've (((noticed))). Like the man said: 'When it's blacks, it's ...
My 360° Whiteness Review
Introduction: While some might want me to begin today's installment by avowing that the November goal is not to attack everybody—as though I were trying to start a Reformed version of Festivus ...
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Standing on the X
“The point here is not that modern evangelicalism is sick, but rather that it is the sickness. And what is the name of the sickness? The name is unbelief, and the apostle warned that it is by faith that we stand. We do not support the root, but rather the root supports us.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 178