…unless a questioning faith is a faith in questions, or a faith in question, or a contradiction in terms.
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Post-Theism
Post-theism would be the obsolescence of traditional theisms in the age of the rise of the Nones, although I will continue to treat it as form under the more general heading of anismism, since any assertion of “ism” that does not immediately undermine itself remains ismistic.
What they mean by “neo-isolationist”
The Republican neo-imperialists believe that the empire needs to be more aggressively defended and wherever possible expanded. The Democratic neo-imperialists believe that the empire needs mainly to be secured, or, if expanded, expanded via collaboration. The citizenry appears somewhat agnostic or passive on the main questions, except when unsettled by events suggestive of a possible un-managed and abrupt rollback that would also entail a downward adjustment in consumption and other disruptions of accustomed expectations – a possibility or set of possibilities that few outside the neo-imperial mainstream seem equipped to analyze concretely.
Posted in Neo-Imperialism, Politics Tagged with: American Conservative, Democratic Party, Isolationism, neo-imperialism, Obama, Republican Party
Terror in Concept: Comment on “Panic Stains Tsarnaev’s Apprehension”
Because the idea of “terror” is a definitional and circumscribing topic for our “way of life,” perhaps for ways of life at all, we should not be surprised if it is not merely difficult to define, but ends up seeming to connect everything to everything – if every particular question explodes like a conceptual bomb striking ever other question in the vicinity.
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, The Exception, Torture Tagged with: Boston, Columbine, liberal democracy, Newtown, Terror, The Exception, Torture
Re: Modern American True Civic Religion vs. Pre-Modern Cultish Religion in North Carolina
The would-be North Carolina establishers of a modified pre-modern Christian cult cannot rise without the True Civic Religion of American Constitutionalism under Holy Democratic Popular Sovereignty falling that same little bit. But the True Civic Religion is powerful and pervasive. It would have a very long way to still to fall, even if the reactionary cult happens to seize control of a city council somewhere for long enough to have a few somewhat sectarian prayers said before sessions, or to put the emblems of the cult on the same level as a team mascot.
Posted in Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Americanism, Anismism, Constitution, religion
Light to no posting…
…probably for a couple weeks at least. Got to deal with the world. Maybe after April 15 I’ll be able to catch up on some unfinished writing business, pieces going back to last year that still need to be completed.
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Controlled Demolition, not Flypaper (Ten Years After Cont’d) – UPDATED
We do not have an in fact unresolved history of war with Syria or Assad as we did with Iraq/Saddam, and we operate from greater confidence in regard to terrorist threats than in the early 2000s. If this confidence is misplaced, it is something that will have to be proved to us before we embark upon some new improved version of a newly vindicated Bush Doctrine.
Ignorance Be Not Proud – All Things Are In Sex Edition
Politics as the ambulatory death of thought, often including the thoughts with which one might otherwise be inclined to agree.
Ignorance Be Not Proud (10 Years After, Cont’d)
The difference here is, I believe, in strategic concepts – possibly even a different implicit understanding of what the U.S. and therefore its interests even are or should be.