"Well technically, that law is unconstitutional. Well technically, Obamacare is a tax. Well technically, CRT is racist to whites. Well technically you've lost every battle for the last 70 years and now they've made your thoughts illegal."
I think you would benefit from reading MythPilot's essay on human vs antihuman systems, this essay covers a lot of the origins of modern thinking in contrast to how traditional civilization functioned.
Coincidentally enough, Paulos has become a great mutual of mine and a very generous booster of my Twitter. I haven't read this article though, and will definitely be giving it a look. Thank you.
If you're on twitter, send me a DM if you'd ever like to chat. And I appreciate the feedback on that article. It was the worst performing article so far (by some distance) but when I wrote it I thought it was important for framing the real issue at hand, below the immediate headline.
The merchant spirit is an incredibly useful concept and one which I think I had only felt or seen expressed as the joke from Futurama about technically correct being the best kind of correct.
BAP's recent writing on monarchy expressed the priest class as being word-oriented but I rather think it is more the merchant style contract-word-thinking age that we are living in and which puts forth a different set of problems.
That's very funny. I used to watch Futurama quite a bit, I can't think of that episode but maybe it influenced me somehow over the years. I have yet to read all of BAP's essay but saw a quote from it about the failure of conservatism and thought it was absolutely brutal.
The question is, how do we turn away from the merchant sprit and embrace the others, after all we are here on the internet on a monetized website born out the merchant spirit. I sickens me.
This reminds me of Werner Sombart’s classic Haendler und Helden (Traders and Heros) which contrasted the English trader mentality with the supposed Prussian heroic virtues of putting society ahead of the individual
The only thing flawed in this article is the utilization of the phrase “separation of church and state” which appears in exactly zero founding documents and the letter that mentions this from President Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists was simply reassurance to them that the establishment clause of the 1st amendment was intended to keep the state out of religion. Not the other way around.
If you read the writings of the founders they very much expected a nation built on Christian values and Christian justice.
Thanks for the response! But I want to be clear that I never reference the 'Separation of Church and State' as a legitimate value. I don't believe in it and I agree with you that the founders didn't either. I mentioned it in the article because it is the basis by which this country has attempted to remove faith from public life.
A fantastic essay and one I shared several quotes from. May I suggest in the middle ages there was a third figure, that of the religious authority like the Bishop, who called upon the fox to transcend his scheming cleverness, and the lion his blood lust? At this point I would of course prefer some more lions to the scheming LGBTQIA foxes, but even better IMO would be some men of God with authority to focus our gaze upwards. These religious authorities would give us the wisdom and patience to build new cathedrals whose finished spire the person who laid the first stone would not live to see as that is how long it would take to build.
Great essay.
This was my favorite part, really nice paragraph:
"Well technically, that law is unconstitutional. Well technically, Obamacare is a tax. Well technically, CRT is racist to whites. Well technically you've lost every battle for the last 70 years and now they've made your thoughts illegal."
I think you would benefit from reading MythPilot's essay on human vs antihuman systems, this essay covers a lot of the origins of modern thinking in contrast to how traditional civilization functioned.
https://mythpilot.substack.com/p/great-house-plan-ii
Coincidentally enough, Paulos has become a great mutual of mine and a very generous booster of my Twitter. I haven't read this article though, and will definitely be giving it a look. Thank you.
MythPilot is one of my great friends, he's as high quality as anyone you will find on FrogTwitter.
Congrats on your growth.
I also enjoyed this essay, very thought-provoking.
https://positionanddecision.substack.com/p/trumps-arrest-as-post-political-crisis
If you're on twitter, send me a DM if you'd ever like to chat. And I appreciate the feedback on that article. It was the worst performing article so far (by some distance) but when I wrote it I thought it was important for framing the real issue at hand, below the immediate headline.
I got banned and have been off for about 6 months now, was previously @EdisonBlake5 and @EdisonBlake55 and @ThomBrady5
No worries bro, anyway happy u are doing well.
The merchant spirit is an incredibly useful concept and one which I think I had only felt or seen expressed as the joke from Futurama about technically correct being the best kind of correct.
BAP's recent writing on monarchy expressed the priest class as being word-oriented but I rather think it is more the merchant style contract-word-thinking age that we are living in and which puts forth a different set of problems.
That's very funny. I used to watch Futurama quite a bit, I can't think of that episode but maybe it influenced me somehow over the years. I have yet to read all of BAP's essay but saw a quote from it about the failure of conservatism and thought it was absolutely brutal.
It's even in the context of bureaucracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEuWJ4muYc
The question is, how do we turn away from the merchant sprit and embrace the others, after all we are here on the internet on a monetized website born out the merchant spirit. I sickens me.
I’m hooked.
This reminds me of Werner Sombart’s classic Haendler und Helden (Traders and Heros) which contrasted the English trader mentality with the supposed Prussian heroic virtues of putting society ahead of the individual
The only thing flawed in this article is the utilization of the phrase “separation of church and state” which appears in exactly zero founding documents and the letter that mentions this from President Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists was simply reassurance to them that the establishment clause of the 1st amendment was intended to keep the state out of religion. Not the other way around.
If you read the writings of the founders they very much expected a nation built on Christian values and Christian justice.
Thanks for the response! But I want to be clear that I never reference the 'Separation of Church and State' as a legitimate value. I don't believe in it and I agree with you that the founders didn't either. I mentioned it in the article because it is the basis by which this country has attempted to remove faith from public life.
I thought your perspective was clear and self-evident.
A fantastic essay and one I shared several quotes from. May I suggest in the middle ages there was a third figure, that of the religious authority like the Bishop, who called upon the fox to transcend his scheming cleverness, and the lion his blood lust? At this point I would of course prefer some more lions to the scheming LGBTQIA foxes, but even better IMO would be some men of God with authority to focus our gaze upwards. These religious authorities would give us the wisdom and patience to build new cathedrals whose finished spire the person who laid the first stone would not live to see as that is how long it would take to build.