John Ehrett 🦬
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The wildest thing about “The Last Battle” is that CS Lewis saves the most evil villain *by far* for last.
Spoiler: it’s not Tash. It’s Shift, the ape and false prophet, who creates the syncretic cult of “Tashlan” and kicks off a genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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Rewatched “Temple of Doom” recently, and there’s this wonderful, iconic shot at the start of the third act where Indy steps up to confront the Thuggee cult and save the enslaved kids.
And it got me thinking: I miss movie protagonists being straight-up *heroic* like this. (1/x)
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Been revisiting The Magician’s Nephew as I plan to read these aloud to my boys. And it reminds me of how growing up, my brother and I would speculate endlessly about the mysterious “Deplorable Word.”
But here’s the thing: there’s an answer.
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Atrocious decision. Went to a nearly unknown undergrad and studied with hand-me-down study materials and a $30 Logic Games Bible on the bus on the way to internship. Scoring well on the LSAT was life-changing. All this does is reward the kids who can pay for essay consultants.
BREAKING: the ABA is officially recommending the elimination of the standardized test requirement for admission to law school
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The Breyer retirement letter has been in the White House for six months in a case marked “break glass if poll numbers hit 40%”
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Of course this is demonic; it is a direct rival to Aslan, the King. But it is demonic in a very specifically political way.
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Lewis sets up the Deplorable Word, the speech-act that destroys the world, as if it’s a hideous magical incantation. But that’s the illusion. The Deplorable Word isn’t a spell at all. It’s the answer to a question: “should we drop the bombs?”
The Deplorable Word is “yes.”
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This is underscored by the fact that Jadis immediately starts going off about “reasons of state” justifying the massacre of thousands.
Her being a “sorceress” is incidental to who she is. She is an allegory of the violence of the state that sees itself unbound by morality.
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The Charn scenes aren’t just any old apocalypse. They are, very specifically, a vision of *atomic holocaust.* The city is ruined and its inhabitants are frozen in place. The whole world is cold and lifeless (nuclear winter).
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Lewis wrote this book in 1955. This was the heyday of the Atomic Age and the U.S./Soviet nuclear testing program. This referencing isn’t subtext; it’s straight-up text.
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In the reread of Last Battle, I am struck over and over by just how insanely bleak this book is. It’s horrifying. Infinitely darker than anything in Harry Potter. It hinges on the destruction of the theological understanding of Narnia (“Aslan has returned, and He is evil now”).
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Reading my son a Star Wars storybook and I point to the Death Star. “What’s that?”
Son: “Moon!”
*closing my eyes as the force flows through me. Deep breath. I’ve waited my entire life for this moment*
“That’s no moon.”
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@jessesingal
"Anything that we respond to and love about a new Harry Potter series will still be something that ultimately came from J.K. Rowling — from the den mother who betrayed us."
I do not think this is a normal way to think about authors.
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David French should get really into analyzing AI or futurism or something and find a niche beyond “Lord thank you that I am not like other men.”
Honestly this is why Douthat is so good. Constant intellectual curiosity rather than writing the same thing over and over again
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So, so many blockbusters now are “save the city,” “save the galaxy” or “save the dimension” or “save all the universes.” But sometimes, I think it’s good for us to see small-scale heroism. Spider-Man saving kids from the burning building. (2/x)
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Whenever I mention something like this issue to successful people, I often get the sense nobody really believes that it’s that much of a problem. But that’s because (as successful people) they don’t play games themselves and don’t really grasp the allure (1/x)
For young men, *gaming is up* more than 50% since 2019.
Guess what’s down the most among young men?
✓ Sports/Exercise
✓ Working
Our male malaise cannot be understood apart from gaming.
@FamStudies
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LWW is positively chipper by comparison. Everyone can keep faith with Aslan even under the White Witch’s reign. LB totally denies any such comfort and throws its characters into not just physical, but psychological/existential peril.
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The three great enemies of the series—Shift, Emerald Witch, and White Witch—are all defined in terms of their contradistinction to Aslan. They also happen to map perfectly onto the “Liar, Lunatic, Lord” trifecta.
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Nothing like that moment when you realize that “Prince Caspian” is 100% about the conversion of the Roman Empire. The whole thrust of the book is about the reconciliation of Jews (Narnians) and Gentiles (Telmarines).
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Shift’s evil is in making Aslan a murderous liar. The Emerald Witch’s evil is in framing Aslan and his promises as sheer delusion. And the White Witch’s evil is in resisting Aslan’s lordship. Everyone else is a marginal threat.
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So what’s going on here? I wish I knew. At a minimum, it seems to imply that a diversity of cultures is *good in itself,* that there are treasures and resources from the Calormene past that, *in themselves* reflect Aslan’s glory.
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THAT SAID: one of the most fascinating pieces of LB is the fact that a restored Tashbaan (and Calormen!) appears in the final eschatological unveiling at book’s end.
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I love a good antihero story and I love stories with cosmic stakes. But something about the way big-budget storytelling has developed in the last couple decades seems like it’s hollowed out movies’ ability to depict *aspirational* virtue. We’re not all superheroes (3/x)
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What’s arresting about this is that Tarantino is implicitly making the argument that even tawdry action cinema can be a catalyst for real-world virtue, under the right conditions.
But that’s only possible when the stakes are essentially human. (End)
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A thing that would’ve been so impossible to convey to your past self: you will happily trade 1,000 dirty diapers and nights of broken sleep for the chance to hear your child say “Daddy, snow *everywhere*!” and introduce them to hot chocolate when it’s time to go inside.
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Speaking as an Eagle Scout and former assistant scoutmaster, it is truly amazing how this organization has managed to entirely alienate basically its entire natural constituency. It feels so tragically...avoidable.
(thread)
The Boy Scouts of America today announced that it will rebrand to Scouting America, reflecting the organization’s ongoing commitment to welcome every youth and family in America to experience the benefits of Scouting. Learn more:
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One of the most remarkable endings in recent years is the climax of “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.” Action movie star Brad Pitt and his stunt double save Sharon Tate in an alternate history. Pitt’s character *becomes,* in reality, the hero he plays (4/x)
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Tash occupies a curious place. He comes off as a sort of Lovecraftian elder god. I don’t love his place in the story because he seems to be set up as a kind of counter-power to Aslan rather than a rebel/corruptor, but he is genuinely terrifying.
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The older I get, the more I realize how dumb it is that "The Great Gatsby" has become a classic of the high school canon. I'm all for high expectations, but you are simply not going to appreciate what that book is about at the age of 15-16.
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What *is* this Calormene culture, which at least bears the impress of some prior Tash-worship (hence the city name!) that seems to have such value in its own right that Aslan restores and perfects it? We already know syncretism can’t be the answer.
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this guy is going to be an exvangelical in 5 years. calling it now
I'm grateful Roe is reversed, there are so very many members of the pro-life movement who are among the best folks on earth, yet a darkness still grows on the right. The Dobbs decision lands in a sick culture, and much of the right is helping make it sick.
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Wrote about why Carl Schmitt’s friend-enemy politics is a poor model for Christian thought, no matter how “negative” the world.
Spoiler: it’s a lot bigger than “oh he was a Nazi.” Paradoxically, his paradigm inevitably reinvents a miserable secularity.
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At
@AmReformer
, a reckoning with the “new” antisemitism. Tradition and history are entangled; theological “retrieval” must be critical retrieval.
“A ‘Christian society’ that can find no place for continuing Judaism will, sooner or later, cease to be one”
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Rewatching V for Vendetta for Guy Fawkes weekend. When I was 17-18 I thought this was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
It is extremely cringe now. Pure, unadulterated Reddit edgelord energy distilled into a single flick. Sorry.
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Rewatching Return of the King tonight. The astonishing thing about this trilogy is how, over and over again, it hits high notes in ways that seem almost unthinkable. There’s no good reason, on paper, why the beacon-lighting scene should be a showstopper. But it’s unforgettable.
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happily homeschooled. life wasn't ruined. learn to code.
@bethanyshondark
Imagine putting "homeschool mom" in your bio and not understanding you've just ruined the lives of five innocent children
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It’s an incredible shame that “art history” is shorthand for “worthless degree” when done right, it demands knowledge of theology, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, science, and classics, among other things. It *should* be one of the crowning jewels of the liberal arts.
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At
@AmReformer
, wrote about The Secret History, Ravelstein, Gadamer, and the impossibility of pagan retvrn:
“One can never unthink the modernity, and the Jewish-Christian tradition that undergirds it, from which one’s quest begins.”
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my favorite cultural reconquista is that sometime in the last couple decades the Berenstain Bears converted away from Spinozism and embraced orthodox belief
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Watching “The Incredibles” with the eldest tonight, and man, this is Pixar firing on all cylinders. I haven’t seen this one since it came out, and it works every bit as well as a movie for adults as it does for kids. This is what the magic looked like, once
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This is well put. I used to be a CT subscriber but have realized over time that the *constructive* convos that matter are being hashed out at places like
@firstthingsmag
and
@AmReformer
🧵 I like Christianity Today. BUT…
When 15 of your top 20 pieces focus on scandals in evangelicalism, and 9 of those 15 center on celebrity-Christian-drama, you begin to wonder if CT is making a killing by killing trust in the church? Let me explain.
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Had a dream last night that Charles Taylor released a “revised and expanded” edition of A Secular Age, and I was waiting outside the bookstore at midnight to get a copy.
Somehow this is what I have become
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Honestly, it was discovering classical theism over against the implicit “theistic personalism” I’d taken for granted my whole life. Hard to overstate how much else logically clicks into place after you get this sorted- natural law, sovereignty, sacramentality, etc.
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Happy (but very tired) dad of 2 under 3. Here’s what I’d say to this question:
Do you want to live some form of the life you currently have, repeated, over and over again? Or do you want to be stretched and discover that you can feel joys you never imagined?
Unpopular opinion:
Having children sounds terrifying.
As if I’d lose myself, my relationship, and my career. Yet everyone seems to do it.
Are you all happy?
Happy mostly when they’re older and you have people to come home for Thanksgiving?
I wish people would honestly reply
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Let’s discuss.
1. Why mention that Schmitt was a Nazi?
First, it’s relevant to the question of why most people haven’t heard of him. He’s not a familiar thinker. (I wrote the piece primarily for general audiences, not internet anons.) Second, it’s a simple historical fact.
1. John Ehrett writes a breathless critique of Carl Schmitt’s “friend-enemy distinction.” The piece (do read it) is problematic. He fixates on a couple of points and unfortunately misses the point of Schmitt because he challenges the idea that above all Christians are “nice.” 🧵
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The gaming world has literally reinvented “doing chores” on a computer screen, and lots of people are signing up for it.
The issue here is misdirected productive energy. That is the angle that people trying to solve this problem need to focus on.
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Over at
@mereorthodoxy
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The thing about the Chronicles of Narnia is that, no matter how much you love them as a child, you hit a point as a grown-up where they devastate you in a wholly different way. I can’t even summarize the plot of Magician’s Nephew without getting teary. Nothing else compares.
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I was today years old when I learned there is a Batman graphic novel where Bruce Wayne is an Anglican postulant who fights against a fascist regime in a future U.S. where the American Revolution never happened
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I hear constantly from the “dissident Christian right” that flirtations with the pagan/bio-determinist right are just political coalition management. But the problem is, there are real efforts to *change the trajectory of Christian doctrine* in that direction. (🧵)
Here's a quick thread of the
@TurnipMerchant
receipts that I have.
Unlike the Stone Choir disciples tearing their garments, I'm not going to infantalize him in order to play a victim card. Legal Adult Ryan knew & defied the terms then got the consequences he was told about.
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to this point, one of the most important things about having kids, imo, is that it forces your core beliefs, and articulations of those beliefs, to form up in very important ways. You cannot nuance. You must be concrete.
People should encounter, interact with, and even care for children on a regular basis, even if they don't have any of their own. Adults sour spiritually in some obvious and ugly ways without them.
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It is *so so so much easier* to just sink into a void where you can clearly make progress and you have a big green arrow telling you where to go and a quest log telling you what to do next. This is everything a lot of guys feel is missing from reality (3/x)
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the single best way to internalize a text is to read it straight through, once, and then read it again and write summaries as you go. wish I had learned this sooner.
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The most powerful argument against secularity I’ve ever read wasn’t an argument; it was the scene in Paul Kahn’s memoir “Testimony” where he and his siblings have no words to utter over the grave of their father. There is no intelligible way to live apart from “ultimate concerns”
Everyone’s losing their minds over Ayaan’s utilitarian way of talking about Christianity in this essay, but I bet any money she had a full-on Damascene conversion and it’s just too personal to talk about
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Nothing against girls, to be clear. BSA always had a coed Venturing program. But the single-sex model was really important for me because it provided a context to grow up and take risks without looking stupid in front of a crush. The mode of peer bonding is simply different.
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“I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”
“So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
Best quote in the entirety of LOTR, hands down.
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A thing that’s so hard to convey ex ante: when you experience them side by side, life without kids is so much less enjoyable/meaningful than life with kids. Whenever my wife/kids are away for a few days, I’m seriously missing our hectic day-to-day life within 48 hours, max.
Kevin DeYoung rightly called the society-wide lack of desire to have children a "metaphysical malaise." It is a vast, collective shrug to the question, "What is human life for?" We are sick, and (literally, slowly) dying.
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Having also read this book: I think it’s well worth asking whether catechizing Christians to *hate more* might, in the end, destroy one’s taste for the very goods one originally set out to defend. Will write more on this soon.
I'm sorry Neil, but I can't take a book seriously that pretends to be something substantive that just calls things "fake and gay" in its introduction.
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This logic presses inexorably in the direction of the claim that “the most Christian thing to do would be for Christians to disappear from public life.”
Doesn’t take seriously the idea of Christians having a responsibility to serve their neighbors through governance.
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I am not saying this as an anti-gamer—not by any means. But if I were making suggestions for how to improve the life of an 18-24 y/o guy, it would be to put the video games on hiatus for awhile, or switch to non-competitive titles. The pull of fake achievement is too strong (end)
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Back in high school, spent a good deal of time doing Eagle Scout projects for crisis pregnancy centers in my city. This kind of attack—on people who are genuinely providing care and services free of charge—is deeply vile.
The conversation went from “Prolifers don’t do enough to support babies and mothers” to “Prolifers do too much and must be stopped” in, like, a week.
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if you really want to take this to level 2, I highly recommend asking the women in your life how often they think about Pride and Prejudice
A new social media trend prompting women to ask the men in their lives how often they think about ancient Rome reveals that it crosses the minds of many men on a weekly basis. Even daily. Or more — to the surprise and confusion of their loved ones.
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me: “Jack, we’re going to the Jefferson Memorial today to see a big statue”
3yo: *thinks* “Is he a good guy?”
me: “well, opinions vary”
wife *glares*: “in this house he’s a good guy”
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A word on teaching writing:
As a professional who edits the work of junior staff, I have to spend tons of time correcting “passive voice.” The problem is that this comes straight out of freshman comp, which is hellbent on teaching kids not to write in first person.
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The thing about having a child that nobody told me was that your transitory stress may increase, but your newfound existential joy and centeredness more than compensate for it. Worth every second.
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Been listening to
@TPCarney
’s new book and man, the distinction between “kid walkable” and “hipster walkable” is such an important urbanism distinction that’s so rarely drawn. Would like this to enter the vernacular.
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Been thinking a lot lately about the extent to which current intra-Christian battles are rooted in geographic difference: to what extent is it legitimate for ministries X and Y to look different if X is located in central NYC and Y is located in rural WV?
I didn't always agree with him, but I have to say, it has been bizarre watching the Tim Keller I read and heard during his life morph into the mythological architect of Christian surrender in America, the great Negative World denier who ushered in a dictatorship of drag queens.
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@PhilipDBunn
The trend in literary fiction for *decades* has been to deemphasize plot and instead prioritize mood/prose style. If you had more Tom Wolfe types writing, I bet the demographics would look different.
(Remarkably Bright Creatures really was a great book though, just saying)
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The dialectic of the universal and particular is integral to Christian history; “universalist” moral claims aren’t some novel innovation. The problem with Kant isn’t his claim that moral claims are universal. It’s that deontological ethics are a bad substitute for virtue ethics.
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4 books that had a major influence on your political thought
4 books that had a major influence on your political thought.
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- that Christianity isn’t a universalizing force and that this is just the “postwar consensus.”
Categorically false. A long line of secular conservatives hated Christianity precisely due to its universalizing effect and unsettling of established patterns of social relations.
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A fruitful writing principle to keep in mind: if you end up claiming that all your critics have misunderstood you, you have failed to communicate your message effectively
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History doesn’t just move in one direction. Declinism is a choice.
There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
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That’s why you see stats like “among men ages 15 to 24 who spent at least some time playing games on an average day in 2022, the average time spent was 3.82 hours.” That’s because it’s filling the psychological place properly occupied by real work (4/x)
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unpopular movie opinion: well over half of all James Bond movies are abjectly terrible, bordering on unwatchable. The Craig films are nothing short of astonishing in how much they elevate weak source material (analogous to what Peter Jackson did for “King Kong”)
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This is a good couple of articles, but I don’t think the problem here is one educators can fix. At bottom, the incentive structure of modern undergraduate education is just diametrically opposed to what serious study of the humanities requires.
Alan Jacobs responds (and essentially concurs) with
@jennfrey
's review of *The Liberating Arts*: "Even as we try to keep the humanities-in-the-university afloat, I think we need to spend a lot of time imagining the humanities without the university."
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If you actually talk to young guys who are moderate/hardcore gamers, they will be happy to tell you where they are on the international leaderboards of their preferred title! Because the hunger for achievement doesn’t go away; it’s just been displaced into cyberspace (5/x)
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One of the most remarkable, and least-discussed, developments in the last few years is that Google Search has become essentially unusable due to SEO crap. You truly have to add “reddit” to any query in order to find material that human beings actually produced. This is very grim.
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Every time I go to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, it feels like there’s less “real stuff” on display and more touchscreens, movies, big posters, etc. This is very disheartening. Kids don’t need museums to be indistinguishable from theme parks (1/x)
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Visiting family in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It’s the climactic night of the annual rodeo. The mayor just came out onstage and gave the key to the city to the lead singer of Five Finger Death Punch. Gosh darn, I love America.
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After the soundtrack came out, I had just come around to guarded optimism. But man, every single one of these trailers has been a self-own. No sense of the characters, stakes, world, story, or anything. Just bulk memberberries.
Watch the Official Trailer for
#TheRingsOfPower
now. Join us in Middle-earth on September 2.
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John Finnis
Robert George
Carl Trueman
Harvey Mansfield
Pierre Manent
Jiang Shigong
James Poulos
Samuel Alito
Which thinkers do you think best display an intellectually robust conservatism today?
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Watching Disney’s Robin Hood with the 3yo tonight. Just an absolute delight from start to finish. The archery tournament fight scene has to be one of the best sequences in the history of animation
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Been thinking about this all day.
Speaking as a guy who myself felt uncomfortable with this at one point: in my assessment, the root cause here is basically phenomenological—rooted in a distinction between “interior living” and “exterior living.”
I genuinely think a lot of men are just being rejected in their heads
They assume a girl won’t like them because of an insecurity they have, and think that’s why they’re single
…instead of realizing they’ve never actually tried
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The only Telmarine future worth defending is a future open to the infinite (Voyage of the Dawn Treader!!). The only way forward is further up and further in.
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It sounds like a cliche that when you have your second child, your love isn’t divided, but doubled. But it’s not.
When you hold that next child for the first time, you feel new recesses of your capacity to love open up. As if in principle, love and infinity are the same.
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The quality of AAA video games now is mind-boggling. Better than your average multiplex movie. And compounding the effect is a highly engineered “gameplay loop” designed to perfectly simulate the feeling of real-world achievement (2/x)
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We have not even begun to imagine what an America *where family formation isn't normative* will look like.
- mental health crisis will continue to accelerate
- urban centers will become increasingly hostile to children and families
- politics will become increasingly radicalized
When a 22 year-old tells me he wants be a college professor, I’m like, “Then prepare to be unemployed.” No students, no colleges. There will be a record number of college closures this year.
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Just want to add one thing here: I write all this as someone who previously did have an unhealthy relationship with video games—hours upon hours of skipping exercise, staying up late, junk food binges, the works. All this comes from the heart.
Here is what actually helped:
Whenever I mention something like this issue to successful people, I often get the sense nobody really believes that it’s that much of a problem. But that’s because (as successful people) they don’t play games themselves and don’t really grasp the allure (1/x)
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3. What is the primary “existential bond” that unifies people? Is it simply our fear of mortality? Nah- that’s Heideggerian. The deepest existential bond that unifies all people is their shared ontological dependence upon a Creator in whom and through whom they exist.
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the advice I'm going to give my kids on this is to go to a Christian college and very consciously prioritize finding a spouse. It doesn't get easier on the other side.
100%, and this is not just a problem for women, either. This is a problem for everyone. The loneliness epidemic afflicts both.
Men and women need each other, and things are only going to get worse until the culture of the dating scene shifts, and I have no idea how that happens
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I’ll be the first to admit I would like 2-3 more hours a day, but honestly, when I HAD time for myself before kids, I didn’t use it v well. Easy to justify a lot of mediocre entertainment and phone scrolling. I actually get more done now, with 2 little ones, because I prioritize.
"only 55% of Gen Z and millennials plan to have children. One in four of those surveyed, aged between 18 and 34, has ruled out parenthood entirely, with the most common reason cited being 'wanting time for themselves.'"
@freyaindiaa
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co-signed.
It is really amazing how the modern college environment basically penalizes serious investment in one’s classes. Universities are staging areas for extracurriculars and internships, so rational actors do as little as possible to get A’s
I think the skeleton key to every elite campus controversy is that the classes are too easy and the students aren’t doing enough homework.
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Dedicating this article to
@revcjackson
and the rest of the good people of the bison on
#lutherantwitter
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At this point, I get much more excited for a new DBH book than I do for a new Star Wars movie
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The attempt to market Christianity to the post-Christian right as “just like what you already believe about hierarchy and race and women! but with Jesus!” is simply the logic of “seeker-sensitivity” transposed into a right-of-center key.
That "He Gets Us" ad was cringe, but it has produced an unexpected and hilarious benefit: right wingers of the nietzschean, pagan variety posting about how actually it's a very Christian ad (derogatory) to a chorus of deus vult types squealing "No! No! Christianity is based!!!"
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Been traveling solo this week for work. Get home; spend the late afternoon playing with 2 y/o in the wading pool in the backyard. Take him for a stroller walk and we chat about how Jesus makes butterflies and all sorts of beautiful things.
“Jesus make happy,” 2 y/o volunteers.
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I rarely get involved in stuff like this, but I've lost a lot of respect for Meador (whom I used to read often) over the last few years. Seemingly uncritical acceptance of many historical/sociological claims made by left academics, while frequently imputing bad motives rightward
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