CULTURE VIEWS
Remnant
Christendom is dead; that is indisputable. Christrianity is not. What has replaced the social imaginative that informs our new age is the question. To understand this is to understand what has us so confused and anxious in almost every way we can think of. Our chaotic politics are just a symptom. Not a cause, and certainly not a solution.
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Lion (Part 3)
The third and final part of a series on Pope Leo XiV and artificial intelligence. A brief introduction to some of the issues and challenges that will confront our culture as the Industrial Revolution fell upon the late nineteenth century and Pope Leo X!!!.
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Lion (Part Two)
Pope Leo XIV and many others recognize an existential challenge that questions our understanding of human anthropology and will fall upon us ready or not. It’s not an “if” question but is already among us.
Understanding what’s coming is essential to us all.
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Lion
Pope Leo XIV chose his new name as the new pontiff referencing Pope Leo XIII and his renowned encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum’ that had responded from the complexities of the Industrial Revolution. Our new pope said he would be addressing specifically “developments in … artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor.”
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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Coming Home
Another perspecitive on one our most troubling issues. Is there a more comprehensive and just solution to our immigration controversy?
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DOGE’d
Have no doubt that the zealous DOGE young Turks with their AI tools and search algorithms imported from Musk, Inc, are every bit as much bureaucrats as those found in some of the governmental departments to which they are taking a scythe. Bureaucrats marching to different orders from different managers handing out a different mission: radical deforestation. Are the right branches are being whacked off? Or are only the unhealthy trees being culled?…
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perspective
Late to the party, but I’ll contribute a personal perspective to recent events. Perhaps you will be inspired to add your own.
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Well Scripted Redux
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited Journalists are not the only group wittingly or unwittingly conditioning our thinking. Nor are…
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