The Kremlin has seized the opportunity to advance the plan of tagging the population – “bio objects,” if the gentle reader recalls my post of July 11 last year, is the official term on the government’s websites – to turn its citizens into what we might call “smartserfs,” eventual inmates of a “smartgulag.”
In this inaugural episode of Utopia Limited Dr Fleming traces first the introduction of Utopian literature and the necessary “myth of progress” which led to the first dystopian literature, and how the genre is distinct from science fiction.
One of the advantages of any “crisis,” (real or manufactured, grave or embellished) is that we get to observe how it is handled by various people and institutions. As Covid Craziness continues to engulf our society while our fearless leaders attack it one press conference at a time, Christians should examine how the Church is responding.
There’s nothing more self-righteously unctuous than high-level media figures blathering about their virtues. Here’s Andy Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, “Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we’re winning.”
Martyn Greene, Peter Frampton, Stephen Douglas, Roy Orbison, Anthony Trollope, Walter de la Mare
In its early phases, this revolution, under the guise of a restoration of classical learning and civilization, became known as the Renaissance, and, as it gathered steam and changed direction, new names were applied, such as Enlightenment and Modernism
It used to be the news media at least tried to be serious. Now they’re just stupid. The latest: President Trump supposedly said a cure might be injecting people with Lysol and other cleaners. No, he didn’t.
Although we moderns look at questions of inheritance largely in economic terms, Jews, Greeks, and Romans were also interested in the continuity of the bloodline and in the carrying out of ritual obligations, particularly to the dead testator and his ancestors.
Pigmeat Markham, Eliot Ness, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon III, Charlotte Bronte, Glen Campbell
Let us turn to the more lighthearted side of life. While democracy groans and totalitarianism gloats, there is plenty of comedy out there to enjoy.
