If you had known that the continuation of this blog past the end of January would be determined by the amount of traffic it drew, would you have visited it more? I like to think some people would have. I toyed with the idea of an entry along the lines of the famous National Lampoon cover: "Buy this magazine or we’ll shoot this puppy."
But rest assured. Though the site has not been in any danger of exceeding its monthly bandwidth allowance, it’s had a respectable amount of traffic, enough for me to allow my 30-day TypePad trial to roll over and to maintain the site. I think I will even spring for a few more dollars per month and upgrade the account so that I’ll get a better choice of templates, and spruce the place up a bit.
I’m suffering somewhat from Internet overload, and concern that starting this blog would make that syndrome somewhat worse has proven to be well founded. Accordingly, I am not going to try to greatly increase the frequency of posting, but I will try to keep something new appearing every few days or so.
Thank you for reading. I have an interesting post from Daniel that I should have up later this evening (I’m in Central Time, and it’s currently about 7:45). And to the several people to whom I owe email, I’ll be catching up on that, too.
Note the new sub-title above. "Squabbling toward a Catholic culture" was a late-night off-the-top-of-my-head thing, and while it’s amusing and accurate I thought I’d be a bit more serious, at least for a while.
–Maclin Horton
“Squabbling toward a Catholic culture” is unfortunately all to accurate an expression both in terms of moving towards as opposed to being in. And terms of “squabbling”, as in lack of direction in knowing how to cause a Catholic culture.
In an other article on this site, the culture of death is explored, a culture which foists its many tentacles into virtually our very being. One such tentacle is the crypto-eugenics movement’s intent of homogenizing America into a single entity. As Aristotle writes on the polis, to all natural bodies there is a limit, and the US is by nature beyond that which is natural as a proper State, but yet we attempt to live as Catholics in this society which advocates this single culture where none is naturally possible, and where this artificial US culture which is being formed in the US is far from being Catholic, is becoming less Catholic, and which cannot become Catholic because it inherently antithetical to the subsidiarity.. And yet we squabble between ourselves on how to make it Catholic.
The immigrants who have come to this country by nature form smaller communities which are natural, and they do so because they have a pre-existing culture which is natural and thus continue that which is natural. The crypto-eugenicists use government entities such as Urban Renewal, government schools etc, to destroy those natural culturally singular entities, and replace them with an homogenous culture which advocates that which is most base in men. Just as the parishes were once based in the culture of the parishioners, and where parishes overlapped because the cultures overlapped, we now have mega-parishes of 10.000 families which lack all capacity to form the community they exist in.
There was in excellent article in Chronicles back in Dec. 2004 which goes to the heart of the problem. John Francis Nieto’s article is in the final analysis about the nature of place; and just as the mechanist theory is incapable of explaining life, for the cause of life does not exist within matter which is not previously living, i.e for instance. the logarithmic ratio is intrinsically unstable and incapable of being caused from that which is non-living, so likewise is the mechanist theory incapable of placing man properly in God’s creation. For just as the mechanist theory disconnects men from nature, so likewise does the modern culture of the cyrto-eugenicists disconnect man from his natural state as a political animal by throwing him into a vast ocean of humanity where he is no more in place in one part of the ocean than in another.
It is not unlike the pantheists where all is god, and thus God ceases to exist, for men must have their place, just as in the principle of subsidiarity, men have their proper place according to function. Or to put it another way. In our Fraternity of St. Peter parish here in Denver, the young families as a whole have no idea how to raise their children Catholic for there is not a culture to fall back upon to look to as a guide. Each family is cast adrift, groping for the best method. And the crypto-eugenicist modernist homogenous culture, is of no help in guiding these families. For just as in subsidiarity a parent knows that his teaching of children is inviolable, so likewise is culture a guide in how subsidiarity is to be enacted. And the priests are just as much adrift in their insistence that the children be instructed by them, and not by the parents. They don’t know their place either.
And thus we squabble, in our lack of Catholic culture which would give us place.
This complete breakdown of culture and of man knowing his place in society is not accidental, but the intent of the crypto-eugenicists and their fomenting on men their homogenous national culture. But these are but outward signs of a more inward act.
For while the culture war of the cryto-eugenicists is visible, it is but the outward sign of a the war between the City of God and the City of Earth.
This is another play off the Nathonal Lampoon cover which is rather fitting.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wallace/wallace34.html
When I was but a child and had college roommates at CU who were addicted to the tube, over the course of the year I had the unfortunate experience to become familiar with all the Star Trek episodes and of the various villains; and of all the villains there was none so vile and so reprehensible as the Borg.
Little did I realize, or think about it, at the time, but others were watching those same Star Trek Borg episodes. And not only were the neocons watching them, they were taking down notes.