Saturday, September 24, 2011
Anrcho-capitalists/Left-libertarians
How much agreement is there between the contributors to C4SS's "Market Anarchism", which includes Kevin Carson?
From the FAQ:
How does market anarchism interact with feminist theory?
How will we get to a stateless society?
What’s with the socially conservative strain of anarcho-capitalism coming out of the Mises Institute and Hans-Hermann Hoppe?
They have valuable insights into how government contributes to the dimunition of economic freedom, but they are wrong about the nature of government, political society, and man.
From the FAQ:
How does market anarchism interact with feminist theory?
How will we get to a stateless society?
What’s with the socially conservative strain of anarcho-capitalism coming out of the Mises Institute and Hans-Hermann Hoppe?
They have valuable insights into how government contributes to the dimunition of economic freedom, but they are wrong about the nature of government, political society, and man.
Mark Anthony Signorelli on poetry
Poetry and the Common Language
If there is one principle which is nearly axiomatic among our contemporaries who regard themselves as poets and critics of poetry, it is that poetry should be written in the language of the everyday. This opinion can be traced back to Wordsworth’s famous assertion that poetry ought to be composed in “the real language of nature” or “the real language of men”—further evidence that we have not yet left behind the Romantic era and its presuppositions. Yet even among the New Critics, who were in general so suspicious of the Romantic project, this standard of sound poetic practice is affirmed; so we find F. R. Leavis praising Eliot’s verse because “its staple idiom and movement derive immediately from modern speech.” Our contemporaries, especially among those referred to as the New Formalists, echo this belief; thus Dana Gioia tells us that he strives to keep his language “contemporary,” and critic Robert McPhillips notes that New Formalism is marked by its “colloquial diction.”
Friday, September 23, 2011
Richard Heinberg Speaking Engagements
I couldn't make it to his talk last weekend at the New School. Nothing else in California this month or next. He will be at the Land Institute's Prairie Festival this weekend.
In his discussion on Coast to Coast AM, he talks about the new reality initiative of the Community Action Partnership: “Facing the New Reality: Preparing Poor America for Harder Times Ahead.”
In his discussion on Coast to Coast AM, he talks about the new reality initiative of the Community Action Partnership: “Facing the New Reality: Preparing Poor America for Harder Times Ahead.”
Items of Interest, 23 September 2011
ChrisMartenson.com: Rob Hopkins: Making The Red Pill Taste Good (mp3)
Peak Moment Conversations 202: Collapse of the Titans (EB)
Learn from the Soviets — personal relationships are the best currency, says Russian-born Dmitry Orlov, the author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. The American empire is following the USSR into collapse, he asserts, with financial collapse happening first, followed by commercial and then political collapse. Dmitry, an America resident for several decades, suggests lowering our needs and expectations and replacing money transactions with barter and exchanges.
Richard Heinberg: The “Abiotic Oil” Controversy (from 2004)
Coast To Coast AM - 21.9.2011 - 1/4 - Peak Oil / Saudi Arabia & 9/11 (dl)
Part 2.
Dangerously Addictive: Why We Are Biologically Ill-Suited to the Riches of Modern America by Peter Whybrow
While it probably attempts a psychological explanation that is too materialistic, the author affirms that there are natural limits to resource and resource use. This is one basis for arguing that there is a mean to consumption. (Another basis would be the limits to what we need to consume in order to satisfy our needs, not our wants.)
Is America Becoming Spiritually Poor? By Michael Meade (CB)
Raw Food SOS: “Forks Over Knives”: Is the Science Legit? (A Review and Critique)
Augsburg College: Paideia Group
Peak Moment Conversations 202: Collapse of the Titans (EB)
Learn from the Soviets — personal relationships are the best currency, says Russian-born Dmitry Orlov, the author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. The American empire is following the USSR into collapse, he asserts, with financial collapse happening first, followed by commercial and then political collapse. Dmitry, an America resident for several decades, suggests lowering our needs and expectations and replacing money transactions with barter and exchanges.
Richard Heinberg: The “Abiotic Oil” Controversy (from 2004)
Coast To Coast AM - 21.9.2011 - 1/4 - Peak Oil / Saudi Arabia & 9/11 (dl)
Part 2.
Dangerously Addictive: Why We Are Biologically Ill-Suited to the Riches of Modern America by Peter Whybrow
While it probably attempts a psychological explanation that is too materialistic, the author affirms that there are natural limits to resource and resource use. This is one basis for arguing that there is a mean to consumption. (Another basis would be the limits to what we need to consume in order to satisfy our needs, not our wants.)
Is America Becoming Spiritually Poor? By Michael Meade (CB)
Raw Food SOS: “Forks Over Knives”: Is the Science Legit? (A Review and Critique)
Augsburg College: Paideia Group
Conservative Catholics and the Proposition Nation
Jim Kalb objects to Robert George's characterization of American identity: Propositioning the nation (via Jerry Salyer)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Two articles in Asia Times on military drones
The age of the Reaper
For the MQ-9 Reaper drone that struts its stuff equipped with Hellfire missiles and rains death from above, the sky, literally, is the limit. It's expanding its footprint from AfPak to the whole of East Africa up to the Gulf of Aden. The Reaper, though, can also wear a business suit and incorporate the persona of the president of the United States. - Pepe Escobar (Sep 22, '11)
New bases extend US's drone war
The United States is expanding its network of bases to carry out drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia. The "constellation" will include a secret new Central Intelligence Agency facility that the US announced this year would be situated somewhere on the Arabian Peninsula - most likely in Saudi Arabia. - Jim Lobe (Sep 22, '11)
For the MQ-9 Reaper drone that struts its stuff equipped with Hellfire missiles and rains death from above, the sky, literally, is the limit. It's expanding its footprint from AfPak to the whole of East Africa up to the Gulf of Aden. The Reaper, though, can also wear a business suit and incorporate the persona of the president of the United States. - Pepe Escobar (Sep 22, '11)
New bases extend US's drone war
The United States is expanding its network of bases to carry out drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia. The "constellation" will include a secret new Central Intelligence Agency facility that the US announced this year would be situated somewhere on the Arabian Peninsula - most likely in Saudi Arabia. - Jim Lobe (Sep 22, '11)
Salvatore Licitra
Begun on September 6 at 8:48 P.M.
I just got around to finishing this post...
Obituary in the Telegraph
Cal Performances and opera fans noted his passing on Facebook.
More videos after the jump.
I just got around to finishing this post...
Obituary in the Telegraph
Cal Performances and opera fans noted his passing on Facebook.
More videos after the jump.
A fitting captain for a sinking ship?
Exclusive: Whitman Expected to Get CEO Nod After Markets Close (and Not for the Interim Either)
With such an undistinguished career (to put it mildly), who else could a struggling CA tech company deserve? I don't know whom we deserve more as governor, Whitman or Brown.
The tech companies (with the aid of government) have contributed to the destruction of community in California, and I have no sympathy for them.
LA Times
With such an undistinguished career (to put it mildly), who else could a struggling CA tech company deserve? I don't know whom we deserve more as governor, Whitman or Brown.
The tech companies (with the aid of government) have contributed to the destruction of community in California, and I have no sympathy for them.
LA Times
Imitatio Christi?
Joe Carter, Jesus is Not a Cagefighter
Should men look for an exemplar of masculinity in Jesus Christ? If so, upon whose portrait of Christ should we rely? Contrasting images are conjured up by those who believe sola scriptura, as evidenced by the essay and the comments box. It also underscores the difference between an overemphasis on the imitatio Christi as opposed to participatio Christi.
Are there situations when Christian men should be courageous and take up the defense of themselves and others? Indubitably. One may question the use of MMA as a form of spirituality in itself, but learning and practicing self-defense is a licit moral activity that can be done out of charity.
Leon Podles leaves this comment:
Can we distinguish between the devotion and its artistic representation?
Should men look for an exemplar of masculinity in Jesus Christ? If so, upon whose portrait of Christ should we rely? Contrasting images are conjured up by those who believe sola scriptura, as evidenced by the essay and the comments box. It also underscores the difference between an overemphasis on the imitatio Christi as opposed to participatio Christi.
Are there situations when Christian men should be courageous and take up the defense of themselves and others? Indubitably. One may question the use of MMA as a form of spirituality in itself, but learning and practicing self-defense is a licit moral activity that can be done out of charity.
Leon Podles leaves this comment:
The wimpy Jesus has a history in the Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart. Jesus was seen as a gentle, non-threatening, understanding man, everything that ordinary men were not. The Jesuits were the main propagators of the devotion to the Sacred Heart, but they were not happy with its effeminate overtones. Franz Hattler. S. J. in 1894 described the image of Jesus in the Sacred Heart cult as “a matchmaker” with a “flirtatiously bowed head, longing eyes, a mouth puckered with kisses,’ and “foppishly crimped hair.” Otto Pfülf, S. J. found the devotion “too sweet,” “like a pious fantasy,” that was “more suitable for the souls of women.” Richard Burton describes the nineteenth-century French Christ as “curiously androgynous, with his wispy beard, does-like eyes, and delicate, soft-limbed body.” In 1899 in the United States an historian described the image of the Sacred Heart as “a young man in flowing gowns, with soft face, large eyes, small delicate out, slightly parted lips, small thin nose, downy beard, long curly hair parted in the middle and falling gracefully to the shoulders, slender hands,” or, as another critic called the image, “a pink painted Valentine.”
The feminine softness and sympathetic gaze of Jesus established a bond between them and those who sought his aid, that is, “ primarily women and children.”This was a major change, as David Morgan points out from the original image of the Sacred Heart; it substitutes “closeness and delicacy of feeling for the older passion, devoted personal relationship for penitential anguish.”
Can we distinguish between the devotion and its artistic representation?
Tom Whipple's Summary of the Bundeswehr's Report on Peak Oil
Fall Church News-Press (EB)
For the link to the complete English translation of the report, go here.
For the link to the complete English translation of the report, go here.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Alone and Invisible No More
How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives
by Allan Teel, M.D.
Americans need to become reacquainted with living in extended families, with the burden of caring for elders being primarily upon their children. Only when family is unable to perform those duties should alternative arrangements be found within the local community.
Transition Voice review
The review criticizes the solution offered in the book for being too dependent upon cheap energy, but recommends it for re-focusing on the community.
How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives
by Allan Teel, M.D.
Americans need to become reacquainted with living in extended families, with the burden of caring for elders being primarily upon their children. Only when family is unable to perform those duties should alternative arrangements be found within the local community.
Transition Voice review
The review criticizes the solution offered in the book for being too dependent upon cheap energy, but recommends it for re-focusing on the community.
Courageous
Yahoo! Movies
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Youtube channel
Before I saw the trailer, I was already associating it with Kirk Cameron's Fireproof. It appears my guess was correct.
A message defending fatherhood to a multicultural audience, but will it uphold patriarchy and criticize feminism? How do these husbands view their wives? It does offer a good portrayal of male friendship and local community, but the proper relationship between husbands and wives still needs to be addressed by Christians.
I don't know if The Way would be any better as an inspirational Christian movie that should be taken seriously by believers. And it stars Martin Sheen, which is usually indicator that the movie will not be representative of orthodoxy or authentic Catholic spirituality.
As I've said many times, Christians may be limited in their options, but these movies do not go far enough in being countercultural and forcing us to re-evaluate our assumptions about the Uhmerican way of life.
Dalrock: Nothing is more subversive than the truth
Misc:
How times have changed in New York City! Extraordinary colour photographs reveal 1940s life in the Big Apple in all its glory
Not enough to make me think well of NYC, but the photos do capture what the United States used to be like.
official
Youtube channel
Before I saw the trailer, I was already associating it with Kirk Cameron's Fireproof. It appears my guess was correct.
A message defending fatherhood to a multicultural audience, but will it uphold patriarchy and criticize feminism? How do these husbands view their wives? It does offer a good portrayal of male friendship and local community, but the proper relationship between husbands and wives still needs to be addressed by Christians.
I don't know if The Way would be any better as an inspirational Christian movie that should be taken seriously by believers. And it stars Martin Sheen, which is usually indicator that the movie will not be representative of orthodoxy or authentic Catholic spirituality.
As I've said many times, Christians may be limited in their options, but these movies do not go far enough in being countercultural and forcing us to re-evaluate our assumptions about the Uhmerican way of life.
Dalrock: Nothing is more subversive than the truth
Misc:
How times have changed in New York City! Extraordinary colour photographs reveal 1940s life in the Big Apple in all its glory
Not enough to make me think well of NYC, but the photos do capture what the United States used to be like.
Items of Interest, 21 September 2011
Kevin Carson, Bad Consciousness or Bad Structure
GARETH PORTER, U.S. Night Raids Aimed at Afghan Civilians
VIJAY PRASHAD, The Costs of the Great War on Terror
Immigration, the Republicans, and the End of White America by Ron Unz
Peter Hitchens, Boston Lincolngrad: The troubling transformation of a sleepy English town after mass immigration from Eastern Europe
Grist: Did Walmart buy urban agriculture group’s silence? and The Small Town Energy Revolution
The Localizer Blog: A Look at the Other Side
Female Farmers: The New Food Industry Frontier
Education:
Clasical Bloggers
Lost Tools of Writing
The words of the father
Black Belt Mag: Bruce Lee’s Tao of Jeet Kune Do: What Kind of Book Is It? Three Contributors to the Expanded Edition Sound Off!
Health and Diet:
Will Misguided Saturated Fat Beliefs Cause Weight Gain in School Children?
MDA: How to Deal With Common Primal Stumbling Blocks
Entertainment:
NPR: Roger Ebert
Nippon Cinema: Trailer for eatrip
GARETH PORTER, U.S. Night Raids Aimed at Afghan Civilians
VIJAY PRASHAD, The Costs of the Great War on Terror
Immigration, the Republicans, and the End of White America by Ron Unz
What is Ron Unz's agenda?
Peter Hitchens, Boston Lincolngrad: The troubling transformation of a sleepy English town after mass immigration from Eastern Europe
Grist: Did Walmart buy urban agriculture group’s silence? and The Small Town Energy Revolution
The Localizer Blog: A Look at the Other Side
Female Farmers: The New Food Industry Frontier
Education:
Clasical Bloggers
Lost Tools of Writing
The words of the father
Black Belt Mag: Bruce Lee’s Tao of Jeet Kune Do: What Kind of Book Is It? Three Contributors to the Expanded Edition Sound Off!
Health and Diet:
Will Misguided Saturated Fat Beliefs Cause Weight Gain in School Children?
MDA: How to Deal With Common Primal Stumbling Blocks
Entertainment:
NPR: Roger Ebert
Nippon Cinema: Trailer for eatrip
Dr. Fleming now blogging for The Daily Mail
He announces it here. His first post, in which he gives mild praise to Charlie Sheen: Tiger Blood and the Paper Tiger.
Two and a Half Men scored its highest ratings, but will it be able to keep them? I saw the episode and was repulsed by the "humor" of the funeral for Charlie Sheen's character. Ashton Kutcher's character doesn't seem alpha, and yet he manages to bed two women in the first episode. (Without revealing the fact that he's a billionaire?) What, exactly, is supposed to be the dynamic between his character and John Cryer's?
Two and a Half Men scored its highest ratings, but will it be able to keep them? I saw the episode and was repulsed by the "humor" of the funeral for Charlie Sheen's character. Ashton Kutcher's character doesn't seem alpha, and yet he manages to bed two women in the first episode. (Without revealing the fact that he's a billionaire?) What, exactly, is supposed to be the dynamic between his character and John Cryer's?
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