look around

The perfect dictatorship
would have the appearance of democracy,
a prison without walls
 in which the prisoners would not dream of escape.
A system of slavery where,
 through consumption and entertainment,
 slaves would love their servitude. ​












                                     Aldous Huxley   (  perhaps ?  )














....

toward a purer objectivity

Mind you,
sometimes the angels smoke,
 hiding it with their sleeves,
and when the archangel comes,
they throw the cigarettes away:
 that’s when you get shooting stars.








                            Vladimir Nabokov


















...

the creative impulse in a nutshell

I? who am I?
a fugitive singer.
songs I make
butterflies of song
that bloom in the soul
for the heart's delight








                    Evan  S. Connell




















....

new trends in cyberethics

Poe's law


...is an Internet adage that states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.

difficult to be settled in the moment

Man…who lives in three places –
  in the past, in the present, and in the future –
can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless.
Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. 




                             




                                  Georg  Christoph  Lichtenberg
















.....

someone has to stand up to those bastards

the family
is the human race's natural defense
against utopianism








                   Michael Novak












....

every system is a synthesis

 

 

 

 

 

　


Christianity as a work of art in Christ who is God's doxa,
human life as a theater of evil and grace in players and Player—in the last analysis,
Balthasar has given us in his systems works of art.
 Despite weaknesses that lie within these thousands of pages,
the greatness of the vision shines through the form.
The structure is the message.


                           Fr. Thomas O'Meara OP









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