How is reverse chronological going?

The Hymnal (1940) exists, what more could people want?

Dealing with an elderly family member who has lost the ability to drive and boy would more of that be useful

Yea I’m listening to Democracy in America rn, and while some of it still applies…some of it is incredibly foreign to our contemporary system

Whoa, as a Catholic 63% in formation sounds crazy

The contrast between the Anglo-liberal tradition of moving out of the state of nature by subduing the desire for prestige to material needs and the Hegelian inverse is quite interesting

I mean the Civil War is about quest for recognition on just about every level, even on the Lincoln’s quest for greatness

God gave us mediating institutions and the Church because He knew us too well

The old adage that “Humans are religious animals”, definitely seems to have a wisdom

I’m far from thinking that the current governance model is the end all be all, but isn’t this largely downstream of ELCC reform? Are they going to try to undo that? Seems like as usual, the answer is longer term hedging for retail consumers, which is a state level regulatory issue

I think I would have used quotes but treating it as just like a noun clause I guess works

“An American industrial policy is much less likely to improve its economic competitiveness, precisely because America is more democratic than Taiwan or the Asian Newly Industrialized Economies. The planning process would quickly fall prey to pressures from Congress …”

Hmmm

Shoulda proofread that lol

“But there are other kinds of non-economic conflicts that are far more intractable, having to do with issues like inherited social status and nationality, that democracy is not particularly good at resolving.” p 117

Reading through THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN finally

Dealing with some elderly relatives with health issues rn and I can’t imagine experiencing aging without family and community