Jason Peters Reviews Living the Long Emergency

Adapt or Die: Kunstler's Guide to Living in the Long Emergency by Jason Peters | https://t.co/K6EXUOD96f pic.twitter.com/2pJnb8XG4J

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Jason Peters on Christopher Lasch

From the Editor--Local Culture 2.2: Christopher Lasch by Jason Peters | https://t.co/pfi7APvq0C pic.twitter.com/HH8gDW6Zr5

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Jason Peters on the Reaction to Patrick Deneen's Latest

Why Patrick Deneen Failed

Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place

FPR: New Book on Wendell Berry and Higher Ed by Jason Peters

2016 FPR Conference

Front Porch Republic: FPR Annual Conference: October 8 at The University of Notre Dame

The FPR Editors on the Election

Considering the Alternatives: The Editors on the Election

Items of Interest, 18 April 2012

John Michael Greer, America: The Price of Supremacy

Did the Founders expect the Courts to Declare Laws Unconstitutional?

T. S. Eliot as Conservative Mentor by Roger Scruton

Our Allotted Time is the Passing of a Shadow: The Modernist Fallacy by Brennan Pursell

Peter Hitchens, Reflections on How to Punish Mass Murderers

Katniss Everdine, Localist

Mysterious Particle Found After Decades of Searching

How the Duggars Support 19 Kids and Live Debt-Free

César Chávez hailed as model for Catholics in public life
(Cesar Chavez: Longtime foe of illegal immigration, Cesar Chavez, Minuteman, The Rise and Fall of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers)

Senators Reject Iran Talks, Demand More Sanctions

Daniel Larison, Democratic Peace Theory Is False

Jason Peters, Devolution, Triviality, and Vocation

Rod Dreher, The Myth of Food Deserts

More on the power of makeup: Before and after makeup: Reddit user’s startling photo

Economics:
Young People Tire of Old Economic Models By ANDREW C. REVKIN
3-Part Series on The Most Promising Sector of Our Economy: Small Business

Peak Oil and Energy:
Two Energy Books of Interest
Are oil subsidies worth the price? by Mark Notaras and Brendan Barrett (EB)

Catholic:
The Precepts of the Church
Holy Resurrection Monastery: Eastern-rite monks celebrate Easter
Late Night at Holy Resurrection Monastery
Rorate Caeli: COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE PONTIFICAL COMMISSION "ECCLESIA DEI"
UPDATE: SSPX COMMUNIQUÉ

Orthodox:
риарх Кирилл совершил чин умовения ног

Patriarch Kyril, washing of the feet
The Priest Who Translates the Gospel Into Sign Language

Feminism:
Who Knew that Women Crave Dominant Men
Transvaginal Ultrasound: Nothing Like Being Raped
The female body, animal imagery, and authoritarian discourse in the Ancrene Riwle
Bringing home a porn star

History:
Social alienation and political subversion: Anti-Judaism in medieval Spanish music

Diet and Health:
LLVLC SPOTLIGHT: Swedish Physician And Kostdoktorn ('Diet Doctor') Blogger Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt
How I Lost 30 Pounds on Tim Ferriss's Slow Carb Diet

Music:
Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era


Lindsey Stirling


Rebellion: Southern Music Break (Sons of Bill)

Chrissy Crowley: A Caper in Cuba Too!

Baroque Dance: "La Chaconne de Phaestons"


Gillian Welch's Spring Tour
Only one stop in CA, in San Diego. But she is performing in Phoenix and San Antonio.


Movies:
La Princesse de Montpensier: fantasy & reality

TV:
Rod Dreher, The ‘Who Watches Mad Men?’ Effect

Military:
Where This Brotherhood Began

Items of Interest, 7 September 2011

Medievalists.net: Female Prosecutors in Thirteenth-Century England

Secessionist hamlet takes stroll down memory lane
Hamlet of Town Line marks its unique role in the Confederacy

Andrew Bacevich, An End to Empire

WINSLOW T. WHEELER, What Has Been the Real Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars?

Jason Peters, How the Bar Jester Would Fix America (Warning: It Involves Coercion)


An economy beyond jobs: the new normal

The Economics of Happiness blog: In Response to Jeffrey D. Sachs

An interview with Warren Farrell: The Need to Create a White House Council on Boys to Men(via GL Piggy)

Moniales OP:
Interview With Our Master General, Fr. Bruno Cadore, OP

Liturgiam Authenticam - Trailer
A New Documentary from Kindly Light

Is a documentary on the new English translation really necessary?

The Chant Cafe: "Da Pacem, Domine" 9/11 Anniversary this Sunday

The USCCB overestimating the significance of 9/11 by capitulating to the spirit of the times, rather than using it as a teaching moment? The USCCB is just too Uhmerican.

NCRegister interview with Archbishop Chaput (via the Napa Institute)

Does a Christian bishop need to do publicity in this manner? (Even if it is for a Catholic publication?)
An interview for the local CBS affiliate: Exclusive: Philadelphia’s New Archbishop Speaks Candidly About His Goals

An interview by John Allen, from July.


Anonymous 4, November 18 at Grace Cathedral

Jason Peters on the higher ed scam

Jason Peters, A Trojan Horse in “Higher” Education

See also Samuel J. Scott, College Loans for Students: Worth the Cost?

An oldie by Jason Peters

On The Promiscuous Use of “Community”

I’m here to tell you that The Front Porch Republic is not a community—and for the same reasons that no “gathering” of individuals at any “place” on the internet is a community. Community requires bodies in an actual place—a place where whole human beings can live and move and have their being. That is, a community requires a place where we can walk, eat, kiss, defecate, give one another the finger, and go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

I had to chuck at the following, which is quite profound:

Item the Fifth: Give the Finger. And let life be understood in all its beauty and ugliness. The walking, eating, kissing (etc.), and fertilizing will necessarily involve some wrath and acrimony—that is, some flipping of the bird. Acrimony tends to follow people wherever they go. But a community marked by real people in real places is poised to deal with real middle fingers. Unlike a supposed community—like, say, the FPR—an actual community is comprised of people who flip one another off in physical proximity. They do so with real fingers extended in front of faces that attach to real names. They cannot hide behind the anonymity afforded them by the computer screen. Even the young boys throwing snowballs at cars after midnight will be found out sooner or later. As a thrower of late-night snowballs I know this to be true. The longed-for anonymity is always pretty short-lived. What we throwers learn is that it’s hard to dole out abuse anonymously in a place that takes seriously the business of caring for itself.


In such a place I don’t mind getting flipped off. But let’s be clear: someone who flips you off from a moving car is a placeless coward. Let disputes take place face to face. There will be fewer of them if they are not conducted in abstraction.

Jason Peters on Our Need for Oil

Of Unions, Cleavage, Oil, and Doom

Jason Peters muses on the Long Emergency

Peak Oil and Ivory-Tower Pigheadedness

And I spend most of my time there because I also find it difficult to operate inside the main run of things, which is why I must say it’s hard not to credit Jim Kunstler for asking a pretty good question: “How could such a catastrophe [as., e.g., instability of world markets and “previously unimaginable austerity” after peak oil] be so close at hand[,] and civilized, educated people in free countries with free news media and transparent institutions be so uninformed about it?”

That, of course, is from The Long Emergency, which, as anyone who has read it knows, is a book that challenges what is “absolutely normative” about our current economic, social, and political arrangements and reminds us that only in an elaborate made-for-adults fairy tale can anyone believe that markets and technology will rescue us from the coming oil scarcity, to say nothing of the resource wars that, far from being likely, are inevitable.

But all across this Great Land Of Ours the denizens of the ivory towers will parrot the permitted technocratic bullshit and turn resolutely away from the evidence everywhere suggesting that, because there are natural limits just around the bend, hitting the brakes would be a really good idea.

Jason Peters on college

Majoring in Idiocy

I would not be misunderstood. I am not objecting in principle to the fact that a college education comes with a price—that is, with a price tag. I close the classroom door when I lecture because, as the old joke goes, “they’re lining up in the halls out there, and I don’t do this for free.” But I am objecting to the fact that whereas education does come with a price and a price tag, it no longer comes with a cost.

It does not come with a cost because colleges and universities are essentially diploma retailers obsequiously bent on making the shopping experience of their customers enjoyable and painless. Discounts are everywhere. Items are clearly marked. The choices are many, the objects glittery. Can I get you some coffee? Hot chocolate? Be sure to visit our café on the third floor. Please take the moving stairs. One of our associates will be glad to assist you.

Consider the distribution requirements that have replaced core texts and core courses, and behold with what dispatch the university flatters commodity consciousness. See with what precision institutions imitate desperate retailers when these same institutions trot out their pre-professional programs and permit the students in them to avoid any meaningful contact with philosophy, theology, history, literature, political theory, or languages, whether ancient or modern. See how cheaply science holds itself in requiring no knowledge of its own history, in cultivating no suspicion of its own methods, and in sponsoring no inquiry into its fundamental assumptions. Behold the options in this sleek package: business, business administration, accounting, or economics—take your pick. No need to bother with land use, resource management, ethics, or thermodynamics. Business-as-usual will have no hecklers.

For education presently conceived and presently practiced has but one goal: the mass production of idiots.

I’m speaking—I hope—in fairly precise terms here.

An “idiot,” from the Greek idios (“private,” “own,” “peculiar”), is someone who is peculiar because he is closed in on himself or separated or cut off. In short, he is a specialist. If he knows anything, he knows one thing.

It may be difficult to salvage liberal education in the universities once the political economy begins to gasp its last breaths.

Jason Peters, (Mostly) Against Movies

I know there are some well-made movies out there. I don’t deny this. I have probably seen some of them. What I deny is that you can reach a certain age and still be addicted to this form of entertainment, that you can “go to the movies” intending not to see something in particular but intending simply to “go to the movies” or “take in a movie” or, because it’s Friday, “rent a movie.” At a certain age you must come to prefer your book and a chair by the fire, or the pleasures of argument with friends over beer; otherwise, I own, you must admit some unflattering things about yourself.

Let it be said—and then let us be done with the matter—that movies are inferior to books and conversation. If I allow that bad books are inferior to good movies, or that good movies are more to be desired than dull conversation, I hasten to add that movie-watching is never the same as reading—and it is certainly not as strenuous as engaging in dull talk. Movie-watching is like Gilligan’s exercise regimen: lifting bamboo poles weighted with empty coconut shells.

Moving-watching is to reading what phone sex is to sex.

Jason Peters, Prime Wisdom

Jason Peters, Long Live the Luddites

A jeremiad against cell phones: Reach Out and Text Someone by Jason Peters.