I have found Sowell to be a model in this regard.

That said, tribes (banding together with the like minded) do serve a purpose. The real trouble happens when tribes grow far beyond a human scale. Decentralized tribes, localism, and wide distribution of property would be a very effective solvent to the reductive, two party Kabuki dance we are now living through. How to manage that in a society as tech logically advanced as ours? No idea. But if it gets us thinking about our cities and neighborhoods over these vast global agglomerates, only good can come of it.

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That's right, but we're all on a kind of "vision" spectrum. Few of us fall so neatly into any category. And I think he would also acknowledge there are more than two basic visions of reality, in the sense he's using that word. I think what's helpful is that we each tend towards one overall vision and that is much more influential on our political positions than the particular policies in question. As our intellectual landscape gets ever more impoverished we tend to oversimplify into these crude alliances that tend to miss the point of what's really at stake.

Read the whole thing:

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/08/the-rise-of-antihumanism

Testing this new share function from Tidal:

https://tidal.com/browse/track/106550263?u

Wir Christenleut

haben jetzund Freud,

weil uns zu Trost Christus ist Mensch geboren,

hat uns erlöst.

Wer sich des tröst‘

und glaubet fest, soll nicht werden verloren.

We Christian people

have joy now

because for our consolation Christ has been born as a man,

he has redeemed us.

The person who takes comfort in this

and believes firmly will not be lost.

does their LSP functionality also depend on geographical location? Channel splicing, etc.

I think you are on to something, but it’s been happening since long before our time. Have you ever read any Thomas Sowell? He was on to this in the 80s, and traces its origins back centuries:

“A Conflict of Visions (1987) represents Sowell’s best effort to put his ideas in dialogue with their opposite. He begins the book by observing a strange fact: people predictably line up on opposite sides of political issues that seemingly have nothing in common. For instance, knowing someone’s position on climate change somehow allows you to predict their views on taxing the rich, gun control, and abortion. It’s tempting to dismiss this as mere political tribalism. But Sowell contends that more is at work: that there are two fundamental ways of thinking about the social world, two sets of basic assumptions about human nature, and two conflicting ‘visions,’ from which most political disagreements follow. He names these the constrained vision and the unconstrained vision.”

It is the kind of insight that helps to explain the things you are noticing.

Read the rest here:

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-nonconformist

A more scholarly take:

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1987/11/cj7n2-17.pdf

27 is definitely top 10

Fact 🙌

I thought I saw a question on #godstr about favorite psalms. I spend so much time praying the psalms every day, it's hard to pick one, but I found this recitation of Psalm 103 one of the greatest ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFr1KdY6aiw

A masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fRzhDURCro

😅

Wow, Pileated woodpeckers are pretty rare to see!

I find this strangely accurate ...and compelling. It is not so strange to me that people want to blend into something that gives them a sense of their communal power in unity

https://youtu.be/R3UL_uCNWCo?feature=shared

(rough language warning if you're not up for that on a Sunday heh)

Is this what Conor McGregor looks like after shaving?

Great stuff. #penandink

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I had the pleasure of meeting Señor Bitstein recently and learned a great deal. SNI is a tremendous resource and only stands to contribute more to the knowledge base in years to come. It's good knowing there are these high quality treasuries of orange pills in reserve.

I hope this project gets the re-tread it needs, and that you'll consider sending some bit love their way. See more:

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"Take it in."

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#quotestr

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Say not of me that weakly I declined

The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,

The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,

To play at home with paper like a child.

But rather say: In the afternoon of time

A strenuous family dusted from its hands

The sand of granite, and beholding far

Along the sounding coast its pyramids

And tall memorials catch the dying sun,

Smiled well content, and to this childish task

Around the fire addressed its evening hours.

#poetry #calligraphy #penandink