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Is “Dune” a white savior story?
I would say that the people making these complaints are themselves the ones with a white savior complex, and they need to stop trying to be the voice from the outer world. They need to read Dune and learn about the dangers of such a complex. Dune could actually instruct them quite a bit on…
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A letter to the author of “Luxury Beliefs”
Hi Rob, I very much enjoyed hearing you talk to Jordan on his podcast. And I saw that you’re still crazy enough to openly display your contact info on your website, so I wanted to send you a short note. I really appreciated hearing your perspectives. I’m terribly worried about what the future…
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Is modern media evil?
TV, like so many other things, is a tool. A powerful tool. And it’s only as good or as bad as the people who wield it and the purposes they apply to it. When we complain of the effects of a technology, we are really only complaining about people, about ourselves…
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Old movie musicals
I recently saw Showboat and Gone with the Wind, as well as most of Oklahoma, all movies I had missed up until now, but all were important parts of my wife’s childhood. Her family is very southern, and I had always avoided a lot of Americana, but most especially things to do with…
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Blaming social media
Blaming Instagram for the terrible outcomes it has for teenage girls is a bit like suing a highway construction company for the way people drive on it. Instagram, after all, doesn’t create any of the content, it just created the platform. Yes, there’s a certain design at play in the forum, but the…
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The gospel isnt the only good news
The New Testament is only coherent in the context of the Old Testament. And I’m not saying that merely as a Biblical critic or a philosopher. It’s clearly built into the structure of the New Testament, and if you believe it, into history itself. There is a process unfolding, and you can’t ignore the foundation…
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Implicit sexual biases
Many people, women especially, see their work as consisting mostly in the fair distribution of goods, taking little thought for how things are produced, but rather assuming it. This isn’t a fault, it’s simply a tendency of how their thought leans, an approach, an area of special interest. But what lies outside that…
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Generational perspective
I recently watched a series of interviews of people who lived through the sixties, done in the 90s, reflecting on who they were and what they believed and did, and how things actually turned out and how they had changed thirty years later. Suffice to say, things turned out very differently than they expected. They…
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Nature, society, and the law
Fear and freedom are always in tension. It isn’t obvious that there is a fixed, correct amount of either. The two exist as opposing impulses. One can easily erode the other. As fear decreases freedom increases, the available options open up. But that only makes sense if those options are relatively equally safe and…
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A rational or empirical end to woke?
I don’t believe you can prove the woke ideology wrong in a way that will be truly convincing to its faithful adherents. It is only by its results that it will be truly known and judged, in the end. Jesus said people would know his followers by the love they had for one another.…
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