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  • The Triumph of Therapeutic

    The death of a culture begins when its normative institutions fail to communicate ideals in ways that remain inwardly compelling… At the breaking point, a culture can no longer maintain itself as an established span of moral demands. Its jurisdiction contracts; it demands less, permits more. Bread and circuses become confused with right and duty. Spectacle…

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  • Beautiful

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  • Războiul împotriva familiei

    The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next (Abraham Lincon). Teză: Pentru că ideologiile care odinioară erau rebele au devenit astăzi oficiale, cu putere legislativă și pentru că marea cultură a ultimelor secole a germinat pe trupul secat și ipocrit al valorilor puritane/tradiționale, poate că…

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  • The Errors of Atheism

    Atheism is untenable unless it is the case that there is no plausible notion of God worthy of the name (J. Angelo Corlett, 88). I’ve found J. Angelo Corlett’s book The Errors of Atheism (Continuum, 2010) as an agnostic’s statement on the current state of the debate about God’s existence, being a pertinent critique of…

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  • Psihologia paricidului/ateismului (Paul Vitz)

    Tatăl nostru care ești în ceruri… (Luca 11:2) În Canada ieri a fost Ziua Tatălui. Din câte am observat până acum, această societate are cel puțin o disfuncționalitate culturală. Pe de o parte avem un status quo, o hipermasculinitate copilărească ce valorifică forța și rezistența fizică (reminescențe anglo-saxone?), extrem de vizibile în religia populară a…

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The death of a culture begins when its normative institutions fail to communicate ideals in ways that remain inwardly compelling… At the breaking point, a culture can no longer maintain itself as an established span of moral demands. Its jurisdiction contracts; it demands less, permits more. Bread and circuses become confused with right and duty. Spectacle becomes a functional substitute for sacrament (Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic. The Uses of Faith after Freud, Harper & Row, 1965, p. 13, 234).

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