Bearing God's Image Thoroughly
Beware subjective morality. Online media criticism has some peculiarities. Among these is the term ‘Mary Sue,’ derived from a Star Trek fanzine story. The term is widely used and therefore, by the same virtue as other powerful pejoratives (‘fascist,’ ‘racist,’
A people has a right to retain its land. Private property is an important part of any just and healthy society. Private property should not be vulnerable to eminent domain (i.e. the government going ‘Mine now’, al a Naboth’s vineyard)
Liability, not regulation. Free market economics is near and dear to my heart. Essential to that economic model, however, is clear and accurate information. Fraud kills free enterprise nearly as fast as government (in part because it invites government action).
Not modernity’s callowness but a question of proper identity. ‘What clothes would you wear, if you wore the clothes most completely suited to you?’ This thought exercise does not require an answer, except the time spent in considering it. If
God is our legislator. The fundament of American government’s institution is the legislature. Congress makes the law; the executive enforces the law; the judiciary arbitrates the law’s enforcement. In theory, that is the American structure, repeated across fifty one constitutions.
Originally Published Here on Truthwire ‘Artificial intelligence’ (as it is called with much inaccuracy) has burst into public affairs like a 50kt airburst nuke, and we’re still scrambling to figure out where it fits- and where we should never let
That’s not good Inflation promotes hard work. Contrary to what you may think, looking at my Protestant bona fides, that’s not a good thing. Inflation promotes hard work, but it promotes a vicious perversion of hard work. The chain of
Men always want more power. Separation of powers, as Montesquieu laid it out, is a means of playing this cupidity against itself. The American implementation is not so focused on the balancing of classes as Montesquieu was (albeit some element
Santa Claus and Bacchus fit comfortably in the Narnian metaphysic. In reading The Chronicles of Narnia, you have perhaps gotten the occasional fits of the Tolkiens: uncontrollable disjointure from the narrative upon encountering Santa Claus or Bacchus. Indeed, to the reader
Three articles in a single go. The last three articles in Islander 5 we’ll take at a go, because (1) this series has gotten long enough (if I repeat it with #6, it’ll be less comprehensive) and (2) I have