Saturday, September 07, 2013
Friday, September 06, 2013
ClubOrlov: Wealth is not Property
ClubOrlov: Wealth is not Property: Svetlana Jovanović [ Guest post by Ellen, a long-time reader of this blog that I've only just heard from recently. She makes ...
I Bet Tickets Will Be Sold Out Quickly
My wish was granted, but I didn't think it would be this soon! In Octber at the Freight and Salvage: Dr. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Some comments by Dr. Fleming on the state of our scholarship and our age:
There are parallels with the collapse that took place between 450 and 600 AD and between 1000 and 700 BC, but they were the results of violent invasion, not cultural suicide. It is not only the low state of our literary culture, but our eagerness to destroy and enslave not other peoples but ourselves. The active program of self-imposed cultural genocide in which we have been engaged since WW I has no parallel. The simplest explanation was put forward by my old friend John Gray, a non-Christian, that a healthy culture can be either pre-Christian or Christian, but post-Christianity adheres to the Christian dream but attempts to buyild the Kingdom of God here on earth and without God or the Incarnation. What Prof. Gray would not acknowledge is that we do have a god, but he is an inferior being we used to recognize as our enemy. Sorry to sound so apocalyptic, but if this argument is basically correct, then we have as much to learn from Pre-Christian cultures as we do from Christendom itself. If we cannot have the Church, then at least we might side with the Greeks and Romans--though that is the last thing we shall be permitted to do. Naturally, it is theoretically up to each of us not to side with our enemy--or rather our Enemy--but it requires a radical break with certain fundamental assumptions that go back to the Renaissance.
On the low level of politics, Dante has more to teach us--both his prose writings and his poetry--than the tradition of Montaigne, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and the classical liberals.
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Monday, September 02, 2013
Two Responses to Globalization
Globalization vs. the Humane Economy by by Ralph E. Ancil
The Next Lesson From Holland: Why Local Money Matters by James Fallows
The Next Lesson From Holland: Why Local Money Matters by James Fallows
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