A few quick conclusions crystalized or articulated over the past week or so. 1. Authority derives from relations and consequent responsibility. In fact, ‘responsibility’ is in a sense only another term for ‘authority’. Because to the extent that you are responsible for something, you must be able to exercise decision making power over it. 2. … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: A few Quick Points on Authority and Other Things
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Flotsam: Snobbery, Revolutions, and the Fourth of July
1. Still in the 'awkward transition' phase regarding my new job, where I haven't even begun to do the actual job I've been hired for (which itself is a trainee position), and I'm still getting used to the new schedule and what is and is not an option now. I'm at least keeping regular writing … Continue reading Flotsam: Snobbery, Revolutions, and the Fourth of July
Friday Flotsam: Collective Authority
1. The modern world feels like being walled up in an asylum that's been taken over by the inmates. Except the inmates are not just insane, but smug, sanctimonious, and completely disconnected from reality. 2. Collective ownership cannot work as a system for multiple reasons, but chiefly because someone has to enforce the collective ownership, … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Collective Authority
CM Piece: Authority in Marriage
Well, this one's probably going to make some people angry: The standard practice when faced with this passage is to emphasize the duty it and the following verses place on husbands: to love their wives as Christ loved the Church and to lay down their lives for them. This is all perfectly right and proper, … Continue reading CM Piece: Authority in Marriage
Keystone Truths: The Transcendent Manifests in the Concrete
One of the keystones for understanding the world, as I see it, is this: men desire the transcendent, but only experience the concrete. I say we desire the transcendent. Freedom, love, justice, happiness, and so on. There are indeed people who seem to desire nothing but pleasure or material things, but in the first place … Continue reading Keystone Truths: The Transcendent Manifests in the Concrete
Serpent's Den 