Art for What’s Sake, Part II: Ducking the Question
At this point, however, we are not yet prepared to deal with the question of whether or not beauty is in the eye of the beholder or whether value is subjective or objective.
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Poem: Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
This poem is one of Swift’s masterpieces. His savage wit, his ruthless dissection of human motives, his arrogance–and his self-contempt–all combine to produce a masterful satire.
Platitude of the Day
I am forever seeing posts and columns by conservatives who speak of the need to defend the democracy established by the “founders” of America. The United States were not founded as a democratic nation but as a confederation of republics run largely by educated aristocrats.
Art For What’s Sake? Part One
An untechnical conversation on the meaning of art, set in a Middle American saloon with pop music blasting over the speakers.
Wednesday’s Child: Motive and Opportunity
Kazakhstan! Kazakhstan! It’s even funnier in Italian: Kazakistan, with more k’s than you see in a lifetime round these parts, all the more absurd because in Russian kazaki is “Cossacks,” a Christian people settled along the Dnieper and the Don….
Biden’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
Make sure you see all the video of Biden’s 1/6. It’s short, 24 minutes, because they won’t let him give long speeches. The event finally unleashed his raging TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Restricting Self-Defense
To most of us living in postmodern times, these Germanic customs seem crude and dangerous, and the reluctance to consider the moral questions is a fatal weakness:
Carl Sagan’s Endarkenment
On FB and elsewhere I have been reading tributes to Carl Sagan from people who praise him for his prophetic insight into America’s cultural decline. In fact, Carl Sagan was a primary symptom of American cultural declin
Restricting Self-Defense, III: Our Barbarian Roots
There was no justice for a murder victim without a family to demand vengeance. Before we rush to condemn the Germans as savages, we should recall that even at Athens during its Golden Age, it was the family’s responsibility to bring charges against someone who had murdered one of its members.
White People Fighting
There is much about popular culture I struggle to explain and most of what I cannot understand I do not desire to learn. But I do think I have put my finger on the reason Yellowstone is so wildly popular.
