-Rod Dreher has an interesting take on Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film: ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.‘
-Christopher Caldwell questions the wisdom of placing true-believing spokeschildren at the head of your movement. Ah, the NY Times.
-Theodore Dalrymple on Boris Johnson and the October 31st deadline.
Also via Rod Dreher, these tweets by Carlo Lancelloti (translator of Italian political thinker Augusto Del Noce) ring true. There are boomer Northeastern Democrats in my family, seemingly unable to cope with many recent changes in the political and media landscape.
In fact, my half-hearted creation, Peace Pavilion West, a center of worship for all well-educated, secular, forward-thinking humanists opens its doors to all weary travelers.
Lest ye think it’s open season on Boomers, remember that you’re getting older, too. What are you carrying?
In fact, I suspect that is what truly drives people crazy about Trump: he is a living refutation of whig secular Pelagianism. He is an Augustinian, late-empire kind of character.
— Carlo Lancellotti (@_CLancellotti) August 6, 2019
Namely: the direction of history towards greater progress and freedom made possible by science and technology, the primacy of the economic dimension, the superstructural nature of religion, “secular Pelagianism,” human perfectibility by social manipulation etc.
— Carlo Lancellotti (@_CLancellotti) August 6, 2019
As posted:
Please note that there is absolutely no sarcasm below. No somewhat ham-handed attempts at satire. All of the below is absolutely true. Peace Pavilion West is just waiting for People to fill the pews of the Human Pagoda:
At Peace Plaza East, we recognize that human freedom and free choice mean eventual inequality and climate destruction. Therefore, we help engineer The Self through data awareness and expert information design. We avoid the State through anarcho-Romantic collective primitivism.
— Chris Navin (@chris_navin) June 4, 2019
You know, instead of the arts reinforcing religious beliefs or biblical stories, or the Romantic return to Nature, or the aims of high-modernism, music just ought to reflect the feelings of bodies juxtaposed in postmodern space. Music should echo thoughts about the Self seeking other Selves within global communities awaiting climate catastrophe:
At Peace Plaza East, Zoe Satchel mixes urban soundscapes of steel expanding to remind each postmodern soul that it has a Body. Bodies breathe just like cities do, inhaling and exhaling towards our collective heat death. 18 years of Piano Lessons and Postmodern Science. https://t.co/duvTYGvZb1
— Chris Navin (@chris_navin) June 4, 2019
Will all roads pass through the solar and wind energies of Peace Pavilion West, and the rooftop kale gardens of Manhattan’s Peace Plaza East (in the international, brutal style, of course)?
Will all (P)olitics, (H)istory, (A)rt and (S)cience finally be united in the utopia to come?
We shall have to wait and see.
Possibly related:
The Founder Of Peace Pavilion West-The Early Years
Repost-Cass Sunstein At The New Republic: ‘Why Paternalism Is Your Friend’
Repost-From Michael Totten At World Affairs: “Noam Chomsky: The Last Totalitarian”