I used to have a crush on Legolas as a kid, but now I'm Aragorn all the way.
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) May 11, 2020
It's called growth. https://t.co/rxeGGQdVGe
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Legolas = Kpop Boy Band Phase
A Colorful Wheel...
Anger
— Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale) May 12, 2020
Frustration
Disgust
Fear
Jealous
Despair
Confusion
Anxiousness
Inferiority
Dismay
Submissive
Embarrassment
Withdrawn
Powerless
Is it a net positive or a net negative for society for men to show these emotions?
Or are only female approved emotions acceptable? https://t.co/Qeg4mw1dip pic.twitter.com/2iByAZvRnO
Which ones are you okay with men expressing? https://t.co/D4lBv5K1R3 pic.twitter.com/Ygxt2HRD6B
— Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale) May 12, 2020
Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day. --Napoleon Bonaparte
— The 33 Strategies of War (@stategiesofwar) May 12, 2020
More Indifferentism?
Because God's grace is present everywhere and in everyone? Rahner's anonymous Christians? Or an even worse justification?
Someone may defend this on the basis of natural religion or of God's mercy, that God will hear the prayers of everyone who asks Him for His mercy. But that this is an initiative of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity does make it suspicious.
CNA/CWR: Vatican backs worldwide interfaith day of prayer and fasting
But then there is this claim that all believers can perform works of charity. Maybe "charity" is being used here stripped of its supernatural meaning, as non-believers and even Christians do. But should the pope be promoting this confusion?
Someone may defend this on the basis of natural religion or of God's mercy, that God will hear the prayers of everyone who asks Him for His mercy. But that this is an initiative of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity does make it suspicious.
CNA/CWR: Vatican backs worldwide interfaith day of prayer and fasting
I would like to remind you that on 14 May, believers of every religion are invited to unite themselves spiritually in a day of prayer, fasting and works of charity, to implore God to help humanity overcome the coronavirus #pandemic. #HumanFraternity #PrayTogether
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) May 11, 2020
But then there is this claim that all believers can perform works of charity. Maybe "charity" is being used here stripped of its supernatural meaning, as non-believers and even Christians do. But should the pope be promoting this confusion?
The “Prayer for Humanity,” day on May 14 will be an opportunity for all believers “to #pray, fast and do works of charity,” #PopeFrancis said.https://t.co/Kr2B7Y4QBG#PrayerForHumanity #COVID19 #coronavirus #pandemic #interreligious #faith@VaticanNews @arochoju @AlAzharUniv
— The Dialog (@TheDialogWilm) May 4, 2020
Silent Angel
by Antonia Arslan and translated by Siobhan Nash-Marshall - Ignatius Press
CWR: Bearing Fruit from Armenia by Kelly Connelly
Silent Angel is the hauntingly beautiful work of historical fiction, which tells of the Armenian genocide of 1915-23 in which 1,500,000 people were brutally murdered.
CWR: Bearing Fruit from Armenia by Kelly Connelly
Silent Angel is the hauntingly beautiful work of historical fiction, which tells of the Armenian genocide of 1915-23 in which 1,500,000 people were brutally murdered.
Chalk!
The next time I'm asked if I have any special classroom technology needs, I'm going to reply with a link to this article.https://t.co/xaYA50dyuH
— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) May 12, 2020
Daniel Mahoney on Liberty
"The regime of modern liberty desperately needs old wisdom—American and European—to avoid abandoning with contempt its own crucial, humanizing, and elevating preconditions."
— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) May 12, 2020
Daniel J. Mahoney at @ClaremontInsthttps://t.co/BCnLepYlgK
Curious
Pope Francis has asked the Spanish Bishops to reactivate the cause for the canonization of Isabella of Castile.
— Rafael de ArĂzaga (@RafaeldeArizaga) May 11, 2020
Can’t imagine a more appropriate sign that a Pope hailing from the lands she caused to be evangelized should raise her to the altars.https://t.co/v3SlLOyxu6
Latin integralists and monarchists will approve.
Can one approve of her being canonized without approving of her being the queen?
Inflitration
The Lavendar Mafia overseas.
I missed this news when it first came out; probably as I was not paying much attention to every single Latin mass media outlet.
From late 2018:
Maynooth: “cesspool of liberal theology and heterodoxy”
English seminary responds to gay clique allegations
Leading UK seminary denies allegations made by priest of existence of gay subculture
Catholic Truth Blog - Priest’s Open Letter To UK Bishops…
Related:
Problems Continue at Maynooth Seminary
from January 2020 - Pope Francis Appoints Pro-Gay Rector as Bishop of Northampton
I missed this news when it first came out; probably as I was not paying much attention to every single Latin mass media outlet.
From late 2018:
Maynooth: “cesspool of liberal theology and heterodoxy”
Father David Marsden, S.C.J., Former Formation Tutor, alleges the rector of @OscottCollege made the following shocking admission to him https://t.co/GTZUFkQHmB pic.twitter.com/OivVh4GUot— Nick Donnelly (@ProtecttheFaith) October 17, 2018
English seminary responds to gay clique allegations
Leading UK seminary denies allegations made by priest of existence of gay subculture
Catholic Truth Blog - Priest’s Open Letter To UK Bishops…
Related:
Problems Continue at Maynooth Seminary
from January 2020 - Pope Francis Appoints Pro-Gay Rector as Bishop of Northampton
G. Neal on the Police in Canada
Assault-style firearms designed for military use have no place in our communities. That’s why we banned 1,500 of them today. Get the details here: https://t.co/8EEsbW7qdf— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) May 1, 2020
Trudeau announces Canada is banning assault-style weapons
Throne, Altar, Liberty: If We Must Take Away Guns From People Start With the Police
Vermeule Responds to Josh Hammer
MoJ: On “Common-Good Originalism”
Originalism, Common-Good Originalism, and Common-Good Constitutionalism by Josh Blackman
Adrian Vermeule responds to Josh Hammer. We are watching an important debate unfold before our eyes.
I was so engaged by Josh Hammer’s thoughtful work that I did an unusually long response — with bonus collateral remarks on some other varieties of originalism https://t.co/1HvKEn7rA1— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) May 10, 2020
Originalism, Common-Good Originalism, and Common-Good Constitutionalism. @Vermeullarmine responds to @josh_hammer. We are watching an important debate unfold before our eyes. https://t.co/1yBukkHGlM— Josh Blackman (@JoshMBlackman) May 10, 2020
Originalism, Common-Good Originalism, and Common-Good Constitutionalism by Josh Blackman
Adrian Vermeule responds to Josh Hammer. We are watching an important debate unfold before our eyes.
No matter where things land, a new Overton window for legal conservatives, unfolding between @josh_hammer and @Vermeullarmine (& in thoughtful exchanges like these), would be a huge improvement. Arguably, among young lawyers on the right, it’s already there https://t.co/9H1Wh2t8xD— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) May 10, 2020
My sincere thanks to @Vermeullarmine for this helpful, respectful, and very thought-provoking response to my recent call at @theammind for “common good originalism.”— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) May 10, 2020
We are shifting the Overton window. The only question is where precisely we will land. https://t.co/21w8ZB3ZNM
READ: Excellent response by @Vermeullarmine to @josh_hammer’s addition to @theammind symposium on “common good constitutionalism” https://t.co/czZhoXXdMI— JamesWilsonInstitute (@JamesWilsonInst) May 10, 2020
Collected links on Common-Good Constitutionalism (now with visible titles)! https://t.co/tUFTOv6PJq— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) May 11, 2020
Monday, May 11, 2020
Taleb's Version of Collapse Now
ADAPTATION
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) May 11, 2020
Do a total reset professionally, economically, personally. Treat this thing as if it were here to stay & make sure you can do with it. If it goes away, it will be a bonus but remember that the shadow of the following one will be progressively built into the system.
Not Allies
Collaborative Feminist Degrowth: Pandemic as an Opening for a Care-Full Radical Transformation (Resilience)
Probably most of the recommendations are correct, but the feminist ideologues don't understand that it is "heteropatriarchy" that makes such a civilization possible. Feminists could not build this even on a limited scale alone, forget about advancing a change for the entire world -- they need men to carry out their plans. Even if we could agree on the 90%, the remaining 10% is bound up with authority and the order of charity, and given that those are essential to the political order, there can be no compromise with these feminists, despite the agreement on solutions.
Probably most of the recommendations are correct, but the feminist ideologues don't understand that it is "heteropatriarchy" that makes such a civilization possible. Feminists could not build this even on a limited scale alone, forget about advancing a change for the entire world -- they need men to carry out their plans. Even if we could agree on the 90%, the remaining 10% is bound up with authority and the order of charity, and given that those are essential to the political order, there can be no compromise with these feminists, despite the agreement on solutions.
Eduardo Sasso Reviews Planet of the Humans
Planet of the Humans: Reviewing the Film and its Reviews
The embedded documentary itself can be found here.
Fact-checking and physical limitations aside, a deeper and more fundamental issue that Planet of the Humans unveils is that of the societal story that we continue to tell ourselves, in one shape or another—be it green, orange, right, left, or center. And it’s the 300-year-old, now-taken-for-granted story of our increasingly urbanized, Techno-Industrial Age: namely, that we are the captains of our souls and the masters of our fates, and that we attain that fate through technology, production, and consumption.
In short, this societal narrative (including many ‘green’ versions of such narrative) has made us believe that we are above, front-and-center, while everything else is below, in the backstage. Under this worldview, ‘nature’ is not a ‘Home’ but a ‘resource’; we are not earthly humans but technological ‘citizens’ (and now virtual ‘Internauts’); countries are not made of communities of earth-dwellers but of abstract ‘markets’ of X or Y number of ‘consumers’. And thus our very language betrays us.
Scholars call this ‘anthropocentrism’ blended with ‘economism’. Others label it ‘speciesism’ and ‘technopoly’, even as one corporation praised it by making us sing “You got the whole world in your hands, with Mastercard at your command.”
As materialist historian Yuval Noah Harari has shown in the sixteenth chapter of Sapiens, this story championed by today’s economic system has become so pervasive that it now has all the elements of religion—however secular its scope. It tells us what to believe (economic growth will lead to the benefit of all), how to behave (rational and disciplined at the workplace, unrestrained and narcissistic at the shopping mall), and what to value (“Life is Now”, as Visa trumpeted rather conveniently, and dogmatically).
The embedded documentary itself can be found here.
Civic Nationalism Doesn't Engender Mutual Loyalties
When any such loyalties have been frayed by agitation and identity politics.
This is only possible in a polity (community, tribe, nation) characterized by strong bonds of mutual loyalty between competing factions.
— Yoram Hazony (@yhazony) May 7, 2020
When the mutual loyalty is shot, the risk you take in siding with "the other side" becomes too great. https://t.co/emrWHkryk5
Looking After One's Kin
I am often asked what about my family’s Appalachian culture I’m most proud of. I instinctively say “loyalty.” But as I age, I think more and more about how we all did everything we could to keep our elderly in the homes of their kin. Didn’t always succeed, but we did pretty well.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) May 9, 2020
Priorities
Obviously this is fascism how dare the Hungarians try to look after everyone of their citizens - I mean what if it caught on https://t.co/3HkWtXweVf
— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) May 6, 2020
What a Cuck.
Victim of the German guilt complex. The Japanese don't suffer from it.
S. Trifkovic: Reflections on Victory in Europe, 75 Years Later
“Germany’s past is a fractured past – with responsibility for the murdering of millions and the suffering of millions. That breaks our hearts. And that is why I say that this country can only be loved with a broken heart.” – Federal President Steinmeier in speech on #8May. pic.twitter.com/GE9wDECoSb— Germany at NATO (@GermanyNATO) May 8, 2020
S. Trifkovic: Reflections on Victory in Europe, 75 Years Later
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