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Addiction Is Behavior

Friday, February 27, 2009 By Douglas Wilson

"But medical consequences, however terrible, do not make a disease. Many mountaineers break their legs or get frostbite, but mountaineering is not a disease . . . to conceive of opiate addiction as a disease seems, after my experience with thousands of drug addicts, to me to miss … [Read more...]

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And It Would Be Hard to Find Anything Less Original

Friday, February 20, 2009 By Douglas Wilson

"In Europe as well as in North America, art no longer creates beauty but is meant to shock. Horror, violence, sexual behavior of all kinds, and even bowel and bladder functions are presented on stage and screen and hailed by critics as brilliant and original" (Harold O.J. Brown, … [Read more...]

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But Then It Didn”t

Thursday, January 22, 2009 By Douglas Wilson

"A variant that was not sent down from the top was ‘the revolution of the sixties,’ a sort of Rousseauist hope that by destroying the ‘hypocrisy’ of petty bourgeois, Christian-tinged morality and conventions, a new ‘Age of Aquarius’ would drop down out of somewhere" (Harold O.J. … [Read more...]

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Anything Goes But That

Monday, January 12, 2009 By Douglas Wilson

"The most eminent American universities have become centers where sexual license and depravity are praised and the only conduct that meets with official rebuke is open disapproval of immorality" (Harold O.J. Brown, The Sensate Culture, p. 207). … [Read more...]

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Sickly Recluse Is Right

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 By Douglas Wilson

"We were fully in the modern age; the primitiveness and squalor of the Middle Ages had been left behind. The poet Swinburne proclaimed, ‘Glory to man in the highest, for man is the maker of things. Whitman sang of himself, and Nietzsche, a sickly recluse, wrote ecstatically of … [Read more...]

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Yeah, But the Incoherence Is HD on a Plasma Flat Screen

Monday, December 15, 2008 By Douglas Wilson

"The governments of Western countries do not have propaganda machines like Dr. Goebbels’, but all of Western culture is permeated by mass communications and round-the-clock entertainment. Whole populations are effectively anesthetized; independent thinking becomes rare; slogans … [Read more...]

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Not the First Time We”ve Been Here

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 By Douglas Wilson

"Although it began at a time when the older idealistic view was already being replaced by a sensate mentality, the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century reasserted an ideational worldview, placing great emphasis upon God, his will, and his Word . . . The Protestant … [Read more...]

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Assisted Suicide for Churches

Monday, December 8, 2008 By Douglas Wilson

"When religious groups compromise their foundational beliefs in order to coexist with the late sensate culture rather than challenging it or standing against it, they in effect consent to their own liquidation" (Harold O.J. Brown, The Sensate Culture, p. 67). … [Read more...]

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Why There”s 57 Channels and Nothing On

Monday, December 1, 2008 By Douglas Wilson

"Only in this century did the techniques of recording, film, television, and video make art, music, and literature in all their forms—from the highest and most cultivated to the lowest and crudest—accessible to virtually every member of society, even teenagers and young children … [Read more...]

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Guess Which One We”re In

Monday, November 24, 2008 By Douglas Wilson

"Sorokin identified three distinct phases through which cultures pass: ideational, idealistic, and sensate. Each phase has distinctive characteristics and in general runs a specific course. Virtually every human society can be found at any particular time to be in one phase or … [Read more...]

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