I must apologize again for having so little on offer here lately. We’ve been distracted by personal matters, but I’ve also felt I have very little of value to say that I haven’t already said.
This is as much due to laziness and indiscipline as to anything else, though: not-writing has a momentum of its own, and once you’ve lost the habit of making sure to post something every day, it’s easier and easier to let weeks slip by — and it’s far too easy to let a worthwhile thought or comment go unwritten once that discipline and sense of obligation has atrophied (which in my case it clearly has). So among my resolutions for the coming New Year (which is just two weeks away!) is a determination to resuscitate the blog.
All I have for you today, I’m afraid, are two links, but they are both good ones, and well worth your time. (To paraphrase St Augustine: “Lord, make me productive — but not yet!”)
The first is a brief, scathing indictment, by George Will (yes, George Will, and no ad hominem comments, if you please), of the malevolent perversion of history calling itself The 1619 Project. Will’s column will do nothing to slow the drip of this poison into our educational system, but it may at least serve, as Lichtenberg put it, “to give strength and courage to those on our side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.” Read it here.
The second is a substantial essay by Michael Anton on the lack of prior examples, from any point in history, of the peculiar cultural pathology of present-day America. He argues that the historical uniqueness of this crisis — in particular, its obsession with suicidal self-loathing — makes confident prediction almost impossible. Here.
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I find myself with plenty to write about and plenty to say. Problem is, none of it needs to be ‘put on paper’. I am long past fed up with George Will but…his 1619 Project take down has had the predictable effect of causing the Dems, Progs, commies and red diaper babies to go off the deep end. Hopefully the bottom is a long way down and covered with large boulders. May all of these self loathing nihilists find the cliff’s edge very soon.
Apt links.
Read a few comments on Will’s column. Apparently, the Left now defends slavery as a huge economic plus, with workers in the institution putting Stakhanovites to shame with their economic output. Maybe they’ll reify that notion to fund the next Build Back Better plan, LOL.