Jonathan Culbreath
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She’s actually asking really good questions here. Sadly, most schools do not teach the history and origins of mathematics. But if you go to
@TACollege
you might get the beginnings of an answer to all of these questions... and it’s quite amazing to discover.
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“The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle because they do not believe; they are intolerant in practice because they do not love.”
— Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange
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Byung-Chul Han, critiquing Žižek, but also a stunning critique of contemporary self-improvement culture (and implicitly the identity politics of gender), as a culture of narcissistic self-exploitation. Both men and women, top dogs and underdogs, suffer from this compulsion.
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Kazimir Malevich, “Mystic Suprematism (Red Cross on a Black Circle)”
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The trouble with the "I am myself a
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" discourse is that it reduces "Catholic" to the category of a self-chosen, self-made identity, like "transgender" or "bisexual," etc. This is, of course, totally wrongheaded. The Catholic religion itself defines for us...
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My wife and I today discussed the possibility of moving to Hungary.
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Happy Fourth of July from that great Americanist, Vladimir Lenin!
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As a teacher, I can say that my experience of teenagers very much reflects Mark Fisher’s description of “reflexive impotence” here.
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A big article on Kojève by yours truly, on Kojève’s idiosyncratic conservatism for the end of history.
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Kojève: “If History must be completed, if absolute Knowledge must be possible, it is only the Slave who can do it.” (Intro to Hegel, 47)
Jesus: “For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45)
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This is ridiculous. There would be no California without Saint Junipero Serra, who moreover was only ever kind and human towards the indigenous people whom he evangelized.
Also, I proposed to my wife in front of this statue, looking out over Ventura towards the ocean.
A letter for a peaceful resolution on Father Junipero Serra statue. Please click the link below to read the joint statement from the Mayor of the City of Ventura, the Barbareño/ Ventureño Band of Mission Indians (Chumash), and the Mission San Buenaventura.
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Marxism is the fulfillment of liberalism: if they are not identical, they at least have very similar goals. Communism is eschatological libertarianism. Where Marx and other liberals disagree is merely on questions of means.
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Christ the self-emptying, self-negating, and self-transcending Slave — he is the Übermensch.
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I am in love with the religious art of the Peruvian Cuzco School, which bears elements of Catholic Spanish style with indigenous Andean elemements inculurated in it.
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Here's a link to Adrian Vermeule's recent talk on liberalism as a political theology with its own liturgical and sacramental system. This is an incredibly important way to think about liberalism.
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I’m a theist, obviously. But Kojève’s challenge to Christian theism is a challenge that Christians and all religious people need to hear.
Finished another Kojève translation for my ~350 Twitter followers. A review of the Jesuit Fr. Auguste Grégoire’s book “Immanence and transcendence”. Total Jesuit Death.
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Jehu, the internet’s greatest Marxist, on the culture wars and “cultural Marxism”
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KOJÈVE: “It is precisely to the organization and the ‘humanization’ of its free time that future humanity will have to devote its efforts. (Did Marx himself not say, in repeating, without realizing it, a saying of Aristotle’s: that the ultimate motive of progress,…
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Inflation is usually associated with too-high levels of consumption, i.e. aggregate demand pushing up prices. The logic of raising interest rates is, in part, to reduce this aggregate demand: companies have tighter access to credit, and thus tighter access to the funds...
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Happy Easter to Catholic Twitter from the three of us Culbreaths.
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Sites like LifeSiteNews are the reason why integralism should exist. I get that the Church has undergone a scandal. I get it. Bad bishops should be punished. That does not justify the derision which some Catholics are beginning to direct at the episcopacy itself.
Bishop Barron’s call for hierarchy to police Catholic media is a recipe for disaster
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The Kojèvean idea of the end of history, wherein nothing really new can any longer be thought, is essentially the same as the traditional Catholic idea that after Christ there can be no new revelation: the deposit of faith is complete. All “development” that takes place…
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On the contrary, there is a long political history of the pro-life movement prior to Roe vs. Wade, and - get this - prior to Roe it was largely a *progressive* movement, closely tied in with feminist and various other social activist movements.
Cf:
Unfun fact: abortion was not a political issue in this country until the early 1970s, when it was deliberately made a political issue to goad white evangelicals into voting Republican.
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Carl Schmitt, on the risk of reducing the Catholic Church’s function to that of mere therapy.
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Michael Hudson, “Super Imperialism.” One of the unique features of the modern U.S. empire is that it manages to wield its position as a debtor nation in its own interests. Traditionally, it is creditors that empires have lorded it over other nations, keeping them in debt.
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I love this little sketch of the Crucifixion by Salvador Dali. Something almost Zen-like and oriental in the lightness and emptiness of its lines. The God who emptied himself.
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These look like men who resent the fact that they might be expected to take on the responsibility of fatherhood.
Following the introduction of a near total abortion ban in Poland, pro-abortion activists attack a pro-life advert in Warsaw, Poland.
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Surprise, surprise
As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in talks to run its oil and gas industry, and the IMF is imposing the Washington Consensus.
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Kojève on the concept of “economic democracy,” as a counterfeit socialism, in reality no more than a joint-stock company, one of the clearest examples of financial-managerial autocracy.
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Similarities between Kojève’s account of the Bourgeois as one who enslaves himself (who becomes revolutionary by freeing himself from himself), and Byung-Chul Han’s account of the late-modern achievement subject who exploits himself to the point of burnout.
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Douglas Hyde describes, upon converting from communism to Catholicism, what can only be described as the quiestic conservatism of modern-day Catholics who suffer from a minority complex.
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Kojève honestly provides the basis for a sound Christian critique of the neo-Nietzschean BAP-adjacent corner of the Right. Nietszhe was right to foresee the rise of the Overman. He was wrong to think that a religion of slaves could not produce the Overman. What he saw as…
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As the physical stones crumble, the living stones assemble... and the very stones cry out...
Un Je Vous Salue Marie devant Notre Dame qui brûle. Une foule de plus en plus dense. Un silence recueilli.
#notredame
#NotreDameCathedral
#notredameon
@LaVieHebdo
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... flatly contradicts the authoritative teaching of the Catholic faith.
You do not get to claim the
#Catholic
identity for yourself, as though you get to decide what it means to be Catholic. That identity is defined by the Catholic Church alone.
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Michael Hudson, in the final chapter to the 2021 edition of “Super Imperialism,” on the difference between the de-industrialized rentier economy of the U.S. and the industrial developmentalist economy of China.
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Byung Chul-Han’s juxtaposition of history and culture here makes so much sense, especially if you’ve got Kojève running in the back of your mind (as I know Han does).
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JD Vance has been following me on this platform since before he entered politics.
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The mega-cosmic trend of the heavenly spheres, the slow grind of the earth’s tectonic plates, the centuries-long terraforming of the earth’s surface that is endlessly accomplished by wind or water, the slow melt of the Arctic ice cap -- and more!
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Weighing in on the free time debate - bringing in the geopolitical angle.
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... what it means to be Catholic. The epistle for today, in the Tridentine rite, lays this out very succinctly, from Ephesians: "One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism."
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The Taylor Marshall of the Left
Christmas surprise!
My book "Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States" will be available on January 20, Inauguration Day (available for pre-order on Amazon).
Edizione italiana disponibile lo stesso 20 gennaio, per la Editrice Morcelliana.
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Even if Andrew Tate were not a serial pornographer, and even if the brand of “masculinity” were somehow able to be abstracted from its misogynistic and libidinous overtones, it would still be a completely distorted image of manly virtue.
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"“Junípero sought to defend the dignity of the native community, to protect it from those who had mistreated and abused it." -- Pope Francis
California mission aims to preserve St. Junipero Serra statue
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@damn_jehu
's analysis of the function of US treasuries has a lot in common with Michael Hudson's analysis, but with a few key differences (as far as I can tell). Hudson describes the US's debtor position as a position of strength and power over its creditors, such as China,...
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When the classical legal theory of the Roman tradition, represented among others by Cicero, is dismissed as fascist, you know the discourse has truly broken down.
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My deepest resentments toward capitalism are rooted in the fact that it makes me and everyone around me feel that they must constantly be working, doing tasks, achieving things. If they aren’t, anxiety kicks in. Nobody has time to just rest and contemplate what it means to Be.
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The crux of Kojève’s critique of Christianity is that it rests upon an attachment to 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 that prevents it from entering the struggle of Slave and Master, which requires 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. That is, Christianity rests upon the fear of death—hence belief in the afterlife.
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When I recall that Walmart has an internal economy greater than the Soviet Union’s ever was, composed of a central authority controlling the lives of millions of workers, I think
@benshapiro
must be a totalitarian socialist Stalinist ideologue.
Let me know when the new Walmart associate employs 2.2 million people
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Quadragesimo Anno, 71. Mothers should not be forced by their husbands’ low wages to work outside the home.
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One of the surprising things that reading Kojève has done for me is give me a new appreciation for the Christian martyrs: powerful examples of men and women who overcame the fear of death for the sake of a sublime, nameless liberation—theosis or divinization, if we must name it.
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Prayer request: I am about submit a university application.
I’m not exactly nervous about it, but I’m nervous that I might not be nervous enough, that my hopes are too high.
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Kojève: it is Woman who brings about the ruin of the pagan world, the world of Masters — and consequently the transformation of that world into a Bourgeois world, the Roman Empire. Girl Power.
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Podcast idea: audio version of the papal encyclicals, one per week. Does such a thing exist?
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I don’t read, write, or philosophize a lot lately. Discourse is pretty much dead. Instead, I produce music for the Church. My time, energy, and mind are consumed by music. I have transcended the project of discourse, the futile project of discerning and accurately representing…
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@Vermeullarmine
@SohrabAhmari
Not gonna lie, “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” is a pretty badass name for... the Inquisition.
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Clearly, then, it is not enough to merely "identify as
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Thinking about how traditionalism started out as anti-Americanist integralism (Lefebvre) and morphed into liberal Americanism (Marshall).
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Pope Francis' new encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" includes a striking criticism of neoliberal globalism, a wrongful co-option of the language of universalism and "opening up to the world."
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Kojève: “The ‘enemy’ in his characteristic ‘form’ is certainly the devil, more precisely the Christian devil, who also appears in the ‘animal functions’… he is the ‘master’ and one is his ‘slave’.”
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I am totally in favor in re-education camps for the record. In the integralist republic, they would be monasteries where delinquents are sent to live under a monastic rule, and pray and work under the direction of the abbot.
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…and thus of socialism, is the desire to ensure a maximum of leisure for man?)”
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A couple of comments:
1) The servant of God, Dorothy Day, would be appalled by the suggestion that the beauty and grandeur of public worship should be denied to the poor, for whom it is the greatest consolation. The beauty of a church and of God's worship belongs to no man...
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Donoso-Cortes: the British Parliament is omnipotent in all things except sex: it cannot change a man into a woman or vice versa. (The American Supreme Court, however....)
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I’ll be honest, I’ve been rather surprised to find that a lot of folks on the far left don’t see the pandemic lockdowns, the ensuing mass unemployment, etc, as a direct assault on the working class by the bourgeoisie.
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One of my dreams is to be able to just study for the rest of my life, accumulating PhDs not for the degree but just for the fun of learning and researching forever
My old man is 79 today. He’s just completed a PhD at Oxford and is having a book published next year. Proof that you’re never too old to do something pretty cool. Happy birthday dad!
(He’s not got the proper PhD hat yet 😐)
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Meister Eckhart on detachment: “True detachment is nothing else than for the spirit to stand as immovable against whatever may chance to it of joy and sorrow, honor, sham and disgrace, as a mountain of lead stands before a little breath of wind.”
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“Twenty-first century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society. Also, its inhabitants are no longer ‘obedience-subjects’ but ‘achievement-subjects.’ They are entrepreneurs of themselves.” — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
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Modern "trads" (who increasingly overlap with the Catholic "neocons") revel in disobedience, they live for it, it excites them and gives them energy (and often it is a source of profit). By contrast, the disobedience of Archbishop Lefebvre, regarded as the "father" of...
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I am in existential awe before the mystery of my impending marriage tomorrow, to the woman I love more than anyone, and with whom I share all my deepest loves. Pray for me and my beloved Greta, my friends.
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It is slightly surprising how few Catholic conservatives know that Chesterton was an admirer of the French Revolution. This is abundantly clear from “What’s Wrong with the World.” An example:
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This headline encapsulates everything wrong with conservative Catholicism as it has evolved under Donald Trump. Really despicable.
2020 election is Trump/Viganò vs. Biden/Francis for future of global order
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Astronomical clock in Prague. I would like one of these in my house please thank you
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Pope Francis speaks of the European Union, encouraging the representatives of the EU to recall the legacy and original intentions of Robert Schuman, an integralist, in maintaining the Christian heritage of Europe.
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When the most liberal bishop in the country is not pleased with the USCCB, you can be sure that’s a good sign about the direction which the latter is taking.
Today, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an ill-considered statement on the day of President Biden’s inauguration.
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In my latest substack essay, I explore the psychology of late capitalism and its effects upon the contemplative life. A familiar theme of my writings, using critical theory in the service of mysticism.
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...American neoliberalism/globalism has always done: minimal productivity at home, stagnating and even declining wages, and yet increasing consumption. Lower wages (translating to rising unemployment) will nonetheless be able to afford more of the world's goods.
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...severing oneself from nor having been severed by said authority.
In other words, if one claims "Hey, look at me, I'm a
#Catholic
, yet I believe you have a right to abort your unborn child," then one is simply speaking a liar, and not a Catholic, because such a position....
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Look at this blatant nonsense reasoning (Novak). Makes me vomit.
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A bill to create a 4-day work week is about to be introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature.
Companies with more than 500 workers would have to shorten their week to 32 hours, without reducing pay.
Recent polling shows that 81% of workers nationwide want a four-day week.
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