Currently reading: A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul 📚 // bought this on a recent trip to Washington, DC. I adore the Everyman’s Library collection so when I saw this on discount I needed to add it to the bookshelf…
Football season is upon us! I updated my running gear to reflect this. 🏃
American Utopia by David Byrne
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I was so excited the local library was open for walking in browsing that I visited and grabbed a bunch of books just for the enjoyment of being in the library again. This was one of the books I grabbed because I was curious what it was about. I still really have no idea. I should have started with the musical or film obviously. Because as a book it is… odd.
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Jesus Christ asked forgiveness for those who were nailing him to a cross. Do we think we have it tougher than that? Or will? If we were to give a seriously biblical and genuinely Christian answer to the question of how we might prepare for some future disaster, we would have to say: By doing what Christians always do. In good times or bad, Christians proclaim that Jesus is Lord and seek to love Him and love our neighbors as ourselves. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Epistemology is social. We decide what to believe by deciding who to believe. When we believe the wrong people, bad things happen. On race relations, for example, the wrong people have tremendous influence in academia, and this has spilled out into schools of education, corporate human resource departments, and elsewhere. I think that some (much?) of the loss of trust in news media and other important institutions is due to a general suspicion that the wrong people have achieved high status within those institutions. Therefore, I think that the problem of intellectual status inversion is worth trying to solve. Not by politicians, but by replacing academic credentialism and cronyism with a more rigorous process for evaluating intellectual quality.
Currently reading: A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution by Root, Damon 📚
Last year I posted my excitement about reading Breaking Bread With The Dead by @ayjay. Then took a break from Micro.blog. In between, I had my review published: Mental Anchors for Information Overload
A Prayer of Confession
“God of wisdom and truth, you call us to listen and follow your word to us, but we confess that too often we only hear what we want to hear and see what we want to see. We look for answers that reinforce what we already believe and do and we don’t notice how Jesus loved those who were difficult to love, who were different, or on the margins. Jesus loved us with his whole life and invited us to have such a change of heart that we live that same love. Forgive our cautious love and our guarded hearts and give us the courage to follow in Christ’s footsteps. In his name, we pray. Amen.”
“Who’s to blame? Well, a perfectly reasonable explanation is that the public has lost all trust in the elites and their institutions, and its frequent eruptions express anger over failure at the top. In other words, it’s the elites who are to blame.”
In case you need something to make you smile, Indigo says hello
Helpful two minute video on dealing with frustration
Can’t wait to dig into the timely book from @ayjay
One of the benefits of #WFH is being able to go to the local coffee shop and spend a few minutes enjoying a beautiful day in the Village of #Granville
“Instead of clear rules, rationally conceived and universally applied, the new rules are opaque, emotionally conceived and subjectively applied. If we lived under some fickle absolutist king, who arbitrarily decided what was offensive, outrageous, or even criminal, we’d all recognize the illiberalism of it. But when a mob arbitrarily rules the same way, we call it social justice. It’s really just the tyranny of feelings.” — Jonah Goldberg