tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post2296397405740229464..comments2024-03-19T02:40:08.191-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Seeds of Modernity? bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-12860695527564299832021-08-10T07:53:39.025-07:002021-08-10T07:53:39.025-07:00There is no human solution to the human condition....There is no human solution to the human condition.JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-61817265684624114302021-08-01T13:00:43.509-07:002021-08-01T13:00:43.509-07:00Well, I just started reading Lex Rex by Samuel Rut...Well, I just started reading Lex Rex by Samuel Rutherford. It is 323 pages written in 17 century English. It is a Protestant tracing the Bible, natural, civil, and divine law to come up with the appropriate structure of government. It is written as a series of questions and answers in the Socratic style. I don't know if I will finish it or how long it will take if I do. But I guess this is my next trail down the path of this topic.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-25005960822282303792021-08-01T08:00:16.547-07:002021-08-01T08:00:16.547-07:00As for figuring out the "how to recover from ...As for figuring out the "how to recover from corruption" part... lately I've been inching towards the notion that it will take a change of heart in "common people" - i.e. the ones who don't venture far from the mainstream in search of answers.<br /><br />And the most likely way that can come about is a tiredness, a boredom, a sense that the rationalist/Progressive/statist paradigm has been played out and any new developments within it begin to feel absurdly contrived ("trying too hard").<br /><br />(I keep coming back to Barzun and his "cycles of boredom" - the more I think on it, the better it seems to reconcile human nature with the rise and fall of paradigms.)<br /><br />There have been stirrings for decades, but between the latest intersectional insanity, Covidius lockdowns, election shenanigans, experimental drug mandates, etc. I've been spotting "red-pilled" attitudes in places I wouldn't have expected.<br /><br />Maybe the time is at hand when paradigms are in flux, and hearts and minds may be won and lost. One litmus test might be adolescents sneering at traditional humanist notions (like, say, "trust in science") with that perennial attitude of "yeah, yeah, I know... look how well THAT worked out!"cosmic dwarfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562864681773374828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-70766079839718075422021-07-30T15:16:58.051-07:002021-07-30T15:16:58.051-07:00I think that's correct: substantial checks and...I think that's correct: substantial checks and balances between State(s) and Church (or maybe, civil society in a robust form) instead of what Madison himself views as the often parchment barriers to power set forth in the 1787 Constitution (Federalist 48). You have presented a good summary of how liberty was preserved in the "dark ages", worthy of our present reconsideration.Deacon Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07708653111827647244noreply@blogger.com