- I can’t keep up with Jason Engwer. But maybe you can!
- Demon World. Demon World. (Related—language warning.) And yet fear not! “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
- “The torture allotted to the Danaids in the classical underworld, that of attempting to fill sieves with water, is the symbol not of one vice, but of all vices.”
- Every family should have seven sons—at least. (Just imagine the snowball fights!)
- “If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”
- Language warning: “The whole selection process for elite schools is to skim a band of truly gifted students from the top, then admit a bunch of kids with identical resumes whose parents will collectively buy the crew team a new boathouse, and then you find a kid whose parents moved to the states from Nigeria two years before he was born and whose family owns a mining company and you call that affirmative action.” (Related: “[F]ederal student aid increases university tuition rates, perhaps by as much as 60 cents on the dollar.” Whoops!)
- “[T]he crowd is forbidden to be sorrowful.” (Related.)
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Clear and informative, and worth a listen. (Related: “German medical bureaucrats … were soon consulting experts on how best to instil ‘fear and a willingness to obey in the population.'” Related—except how many lives have we really “saved”?)
“[H]eretics didn’t seem very successful in winning over most congregations in the second century.”
Baudrillard, maybe: “Washington, DC is a perfect model of the entangled orders of simulation. To begin with it is a play of illusions and phantasms.” (Related.)
Charles Aycock: “Illiterate we have been, but ignorant never. Books we have not known, but men we have learned, and God we have sought to find out.” (Related: “[I]t certainly does take a whole lot of joy, sorrow, happiness, misery, laughter and tears all mixed up together to make out a life.”)
Brave Ole World 