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Showing posts with label Byzantium. Show all posts
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Pravmir: Turkey’s Continuing Siege: Remembering the Fall of Constantinople by Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Place and Community
James Matthew Wilson, The Problem of Place (Part I in an ongoing series, Localism and the Universal Church)
Place may be a principle of community for settled, agrarian societies, less so for nomadic or hunter-gatherer groups. I do think that having a place does promote stability and enable a community to progress culturally through the division of labor.
Santa Cruz Local Foods is changing hands - Big Changes. It is an example of how we do not accord people with roots and commitment to the "community" a priority over outsiders. Rather, who is able to live in a community is dictated by their ability to acquire and keep property. Those who have more money have more "rights" than those who have less.
Is it correct to point the finger at the tech industry and the government for favoring it? It may generate wealth for the state, but at the cost of community, as people from other states (and even other countries) settle here for jobs for themselves and the public schools for their children, displacing those who were born in the area but not created to work in the industry. The engineers who move here may be just looking out for their own interest, like everyone else, but disliking them for being voluntarily participating in the matrix comes easy.
Perhaps it is natural that the industry grew near certain universities here and on the east coast - but if it were cheap to relocate, what is to prevent what happened here from happening to some small town in, say, Idaho, if the local government decided to subsidize the transfer of companies from here to that state or town?
Some may claim that the freedom to move is integral to American identity and culture. How about, then, the freedom to move and easily retain citizenship? Is that also essential? If so, then maybe there is no hope for American culture, as the inordinate desire to move on the part of many destroys community.
American Conservative: Revolt of the Rich
Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Payoff in the Pit of Plutocracy
VDare: Bad News For Immigration Patriots: Cardinal Timothy Dolan's "Close Working Relationship" With Romney
Elias Crim reviews The Hound of Distributism
(Houston Catholic Worker review from earlier this year)
Energy expert says world's oil production has peaked
Peak cheap oil is an incontrovertible fact
Related:
Medievalists.net: Hellenism and the Shaping of the Byzantine Empire - link to the paper
The Amish, Faith, and Community
Place may be a principle of community for settled, agrarian societies, less so for nomadic or hunter-gatherer groups. I do think that having a place does promote stability and enable a community to progress culturally through the division of labor.
Santa Cruz Local Foods is changing hands - Big Changes. It is an example of how we do not accord people with roots and commitment to the "community" a priority over outsiders. Rather, who is able to live in a community is dictated by their ability to acquire and keep property. Those who have more money have more "rights" than those who have less.
Is it correct to point the finger at the tech industry and the government for favoring it? It may generate wealth for the state, but at the cost of community, as people from other states (and even other countries) settle here for jobs for themselves and the public schools for their children, displacing those who were born in the area but not created to work in the industry. The engineers who move here may be just looking out for their own interest, like everyone else, but disliking them for being voluntarily participating in the matrix comes easy.
Perhaps it is natural that the industry grew near certain universities here and on the east coast - but if it were cheap to relocate, what is to prevent what happened here from happening to some small town in, say, Idaho, if the local government decided to subsidize the transfer of companies from here to that state or town?
Some may claim that the freedom to move is integral to American identity and culture. How about, then, the freedom to move and easily retain citizenship? Is that also essential? If so, then maybe there is no hope for American culture, as the inordinate desire to move on the part of many destroys community.
American Conservative: Revolt of the Rich
Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Payoff in the Pit of Plutocracy
VDare: Bad News For Immigration Patriots: Cardinal Timothy Dolan's "Close Working Relationship" With Romney
Elias Crim reviews The Hound of Distributism
(Houston Catholic Worker review from earlier this year)
Energy expert says world's oil production has peaked
Peak cheap oil is an incontrovertible fact
Related:
Medievalists.net: Hellenism and the Shaping of the Byzantine Empire - link to the paper
The Amish, Faith, and Community
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Items of Interest, 14 May 2012
Doug Macgregor explains how our military reached its current state, so only desperate reform can save us
Seven predictions about our future. Most are unusual. All are certain to happen (I think)
Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream (original)
Why America is Doomed to One Disaster After Another
Michael Brendan Dougherty (Business Insider) and Daniel McCarthy (The American Conservative)
What are the Purposes of Foreign Policy
What Separation of Power? - nullification
American Burke by J. David Hoeveler
Irving Babbitt formulated conservatism for a world in whirl.
The Household Gods of Freedom
Christopher Lasch, Conservative?
Thomas Storck, The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives
Jack Donovan, Mocking the Vote
Charles Hugh Smith, Acknowledging the Arrival of Peak Government
Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage
The Constitution Doesn't Settle the Marriage Debate
The President’s Still Contorted Position on Same-Sex Marriage by Carson Holloway
Hilton Kramer & the critical temper by Roger Kimball
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?
Economics and Energy:
What is Our Energy Future?
The Ten Cities Most Screwed by Peak Oil
Student Loans Weighing Down a Generation with Heavy Debt
The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps
Is It Possible To Build An Economy Without Jobs?
Wendell Berry on the Importance of Local, Sustainable Economies
Worth posting again.
Urban Design:
Won’t You Be My Neighbour?
Alexandra Singer on the future of urban planning
JHK on the CNU: Still Standing Amid the Wreckage
Catholic:
Remembering St. Josemaria Escriva
2012 Holds Multiple Anniversaries for Opus Dei
Preparing for June 26th (FB)
Video of May 5 Ordinations
Charity, War, and Peace in St. Thomas Aquinas by John Hittinger (pdf)
France celebrates Joan of Arc's 600th birthday
Filas 1: The Battle of the Sexes… can it be avoided? - soundcloud
Fr. Francis Filas, S.J.
Unlikely bedfellows (Jack Donovan and the pope)
No Doctrinal Obstacle for SSPX
English Is a Perfectly Fine Catholic Liturgical Language
My First Anglican Communion
I Can't Believe You Haven't Read KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER
TAC: The 2012 Commencement Address of Mother Assumpta Long
College Awards its Highest Honor to Three Recipients
slideshow
When Catholics Were Cristeros
History:
Justinian’s reconquest of the West : ideology, warfare, religion, and politics in sixth-century Byzantium (PDF)
Interview with Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
Feminism:
A comment on "Reframing Christian Marriage"
The Ultimate Short Advice about Women
Suz says: About Submissive Women
Why Are Feminists Against the Male Pill
FDL Book Salon: The New Feminist Agenda
Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
Is there anyone TED won't feature?
Food, Diet and Health:
Taco Salad w/ Avocado & Cilantro Dressing
Wake Up, Food Television Execs! So Says Chris Cosentino.
New Potential Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods Found
Anthony Bourdain on Vegans
Music:
Steep Canyon Rangers Bring the Bluegrass to Slim's on Friday, May 4th
First Listen: Hilary Hahn and Hauschka, 'Silfra'
Katie Melua: Back from the Brink
Misc:
New Fashion Wrinkle: Stylishly Hiding the Gun
Hot Shots Episode 8 Clip - Clint Upchurch 3-Gun Training
Blue Force Gear is Growing
Thursday, April 05, 2012
The frailties of men
Could Byzantium have been saved?
The First Crusade, the true story
Why was there a sudden need to recover the city where Jesus Christ lived and was crucified? The answer, writes Peter Frankopan, lies in the imperial capital of Constantinople.
By Peter Frankopan *
Harvard University Press & Random House UK
A review in The Tablet.
The First Crusade, the true story
Why was there a sudden need to recover the city where Jesus Christ lived and was crucified? The answer, writes Peter Frankopan, lies in the imperial capital of Constantinople.
By Peter Frankopan *
Harvard University Press & Random House UK
A review in The Tablet.
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