Secular Humanism Popularized?

In new series BecomingX, @BearGrylls is trying to install positive principles for young people.

The values that will serve kids well in life are "how to be a good listener, how to be a real team player, how to develop that inner resilience," he tells me. pic.twitter.com/XCnNh0gwh9

— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) February 2, 2022

Lord Have Mercy

On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay and its crew took off from Tinian headed for Hiroshima with an atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy."

Several hours later, we dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan and the world changed forever. pic.twitter.com/wzMBou3sht

— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) August 6, 2021

Remembering Hiroshima
by David R. Henderson@davidrhenderson #hiroshima #HiroshimaDay #Hiroshima76 https://t.co/qbMSMUSx6Y pic.twitter.com/fxrpvDMd9A

— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) August 6, 2021

Olympic Organizers Refuse to Honor Victims of 1945 Hiroshima Bombing
August 6th marks the 76th anniversary of the US dropping an A-bomb on Hiroshima, coinciding with the Tokyo Olympics
by Dave DeCamp@DecampDave #Hiroshima #HiroshimaDay #Olympics https://t.co/Pr6QHUmuX3 pic.twitter.com/6NVjTdGyGe

— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) August 6, 2021

Meditations on the Bomb From a Small-Town Cul-de-Sac (essay by Peter Beaulieu) https://t.co/WyTYCIz7eO

— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) August 6, 2021

The Untold Story of Japan’s Atomic Bomb (essay by Robert Wilcox) https://t.co/pX5cqsLmt6

— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) August 6, 2021

The Last Duel

Forget the feminist marketing in the trailer - the story itself is very patriarchal and focused on honor.

Find Your Tribe

if you want to find your life's mission, not this nonsense generated by a female academic living an atomized life.

To Find Your Life’s Mission, Follow Your Questions https://t.co/wwuGI87cQL

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 18, 2021

Japanese Honor

We don’t see it much anymore but this is what dignity looks like. https://t.co/eAtBDkbi7X

— Tanner Guzy (@tannerguzy) June 9, 2021

Any Bets on Ruairí McKiernan's Perspective on These Topipcs?

Re-watch @LDNIrishCentre Winter Wellbeing conversation between @ruairimckiernan & @GaryDunne. Covering everything from mental health to meditation, masculinity, activism, rural Ireland, community, compassion, courage & hope. https://t.co/AnYHzDQtmx @GillHessLtd @chelseagreen

— Hitching for Hope (@HitchingForHope) December 8, 2020

The Proof is in the Pudding.

The man couldn't lead his own wife and daughter, and we should take what he says about "personality" seriously? The hustle is on.

For a few hours more, you can join my Discovering Personality course and benefit from the Black Friday discount.

To learn more, click here: https://t.co/JVMhAfe2wy

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 4, 2020

Does Kass Fully Defend Patriarchy?

Would this book be available at the local B&N?

I can't recommend enough How to Lead a Worthy Life, by Leon Kass. It's a deeply thought-out, richly expressed, and clearly argued piece of literature that is what Peterson's 12 Rules for Life might've been. This @ubookman review is excellent https://t.co/OJnBvm3ERD

— Henry George ن (@intothefuture45) November 30, 2020

Kirk Center

Encounter Books

BecomingX

An endorsement for the wrong thing should destroy the credibility of the one doing the endorsement. Everyone's got a hustle. But not only is Bear Grylls endorsing this, he is behind it. For what end? Is this just natural law virtue ethics, without its most important part? Or is it a not-so-bening form of secular humanism? Who is supporting this endeavor? Did Bear Grylls get his ticket punched by TPTB?

The stuff they don’t always teach at school... @BecomingXteam https://t.co/T0kTnRsNAW

— Bear Grylls (@BearGrylls) November 22, 2020

Finding Common Ground?

We might be closer to finding common ground than we realize. We can know only through a conversation in search of our common hopes and fears. https://t.co/6D4gkHJFUE pic.twitter.com/3LtazVmJXs

— David Korten (@dkorten) November 12, 2020

David Korten relies on the writing of Paul Chappell. While families and communities are important goods for the individual, they are not sustained apart from norms about individual behavior, and it is here that the disagreement between Reds and Blues. What can Korten do about that? Nothing, except to repeat some tired liberal beliefs.

Our political discourse is hobbled by the linear "left-right" axis of affiliation. Blake Pagenkopf, author of "The Structure of Political Positions," joins Chuck on this episode of The Strong Towns Podcast to bring a new dimension into frame. https://t.co/UPPGlGyjLZ

— Strong Towns (@StrongTowns) November 10, 2020

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“Conservative religious critiques of liberalism are not novel. They are not fascistic departures from the American heritage, or foreign arguments brought over with Catholic migrants. They are part of a longstanding American tradition.”https://t.co/waYFOHc82t

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) November 12, 2020

The Meaning of Death is Revealed by God

How can anything of human origin compare with that?

New podcast is live: #135 - BJ Miller, M.D.: How understanding death leads to a better life. https://t.co/8vTLZAukLj

— Peter Attia (@PeterAttiaMD) November 2, 2020

Maintaining American Integrity? Or Utilitarianism?

In my first blog post for @AmerCompass, I argue that Josh Hawley illustrates the need for a moderate multilateralism—and for an American integralism.

I also question the Senator's commitment to ending slave labor.https://t.co/ZfKMM5mcKV

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) August 17, 2020

American Compass

The result would be higher prices for us, fewer investments in poor countries, and, because of that loss of capital, a net increase in exploitative labor practices worldwide. Profiting off slavery is bad; preventing those profits, but in a way that actually adds to slavery, is clearly worse.

My obligation to those of other political units is not equal to my obligation to my people. And I am not responsible for the evil actions of others if I am not coercing them to do them. This seems to go beyond liberalism. What sort of moral agency are people learning? A sort of integrity that requires that I have to factor other people's decision-making into a utilitarian calculus?

The Morality of the Atomic Bombings

"There was, in other words, no moral justification to use atomic weapons in the way we did even if one concedes its historical necessity." @josephecapizzi
https://t.co/dqxEdB54NH

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) August 6, 2020

The First Principles of Practical Reason

Public Discourse: On the First Principles of Moral Reasonby Paul R. DeHart

Natural law holds that some things are right for all people, at all times, and in all places. Convictions about what these are is neither here nor there as to whether some things are in fact right always, everywhere, and for everyone, @PaulRDeHart writes. https://t.co/6RMDCetGzV

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 7, 2020

Geronticide?

GERONTICIDE is the sign of moral decay.

Indian official explained only "rich" countries make a tradeoff betw lives & "economy" (assuming they are separable).
The argument of "lockdown costing lives" is bunk: in the poor country, India, ~nobody starved.

The richer, the worse!!!

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 19, 2020

Kith and Kin: The Enduring Ethic of the South

Finland: Asian or European?

VDARE: Finland At 100—Frozen By Fear, Dragged To A Multicultural Grave by Harri Honkanen

Given that Finns were clearly reacting against the Establishment and its plans for mass Third World immigration, why didn’t the Finnish Right strike? The answer lies in the Finnish national character itself. Political Correctness is more dangerous in Finland than elsewhere in Western Europe. Like East Asians (some geneticists argue Finns have relatively high East Asian admixture by European standards), Finns are conformist. They can’t stand disagreement. They’re chronically shy, conflict averse and rule-governed. As I argued above, this may reflect adaption to extremely harsh yet predictable conditions, where cooperative groups are more likely to survive. Society is harmonious and efficient but with a tiny gene pool everyone thinks similarly. You don’t risk being shamed. Indeed, scholars have highlighted the way that Finland has an effectively East Asian “shame culture”.

Nietzschean? Or virtus-based morality?

Running a Proper Business

St. Benedict Wore Prada By Ryan Girdusky
A fashion designer determined to preserve the cultural and beautiful offers a model for conservatives.

Good manners make life with other people, especially strangers more pleasant, and preserve the polite fiction that a community exists.