Keeping It Real
I’m in L.A. because I want to be on Instagram… The people who work nine-to-five, that is not me… I’m twenty fucking thousand dollars in debt from college… I am not work material. I will never be work material… I could never work a normal job.
Via Instapundit, a peep-hole into an alien subculture.
I’m not a hateful person. I’m a Sagittarius.
Also, open thread.
The one advantage blogs have, while not getting anywhere near the reach and influence of a Twitter account, is you actually own it. Bloggers should play the long game because when the tech-tonic plates shift, we might be the last ones standing.
I love my little blog, though I haven’t been using it much of late. Twitter is a fundamentally silly medium.
My brother messages me about the Notre Dame fire: “Looks like the hunchback finally snapped.”
It’s terrible news. But built culture is fundamentally transient: all that is left of the built culture of Ancient Greece is a few ruins. And how many treasures of history went up in events like the Great Fire of London?
Of more value is the intangible cultural inheritance of these civilisations. It’s hard to burn all the Victor Hugo novels in the world. Socrates is still a household name, a cliche almost, almost three millennia after being put to death.
We need a happy story today:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/oil-rig-workers-rescue-dog-137-miles-off/story?id=62404935&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_card_hed
“It’s hard to burn all the Victor Hugo novels in the world. ”
Well maybe not ALL of them…I keeed, I keeeed.
“Same with the Cologne cathedral, and countless other historical buildings that got damaged in WWII.”
Also, more recently and similarly, Windsor Castle and the south transept of York Minster. Amazingly, both of those were restored within five years. As long as there’s the money and the will, it can be done.
If I were the people in charge (as far as I understand it, it’s owned by the City of Paris with the church simply a tenant), I’d be on the phone to the Palace and the Dioscese of York first thing for pointers. The Frauenkirche in Dresden, too.
“Also, more recently and similarly, Windsor Castle and the south transept of York Minster. Amazingly, both of those were restored within five years. As long as there’s the money and the will, it can be done.”
Actually, it reminded me in a strange way of a current kafuffle over the Christchurch cathedral.
After the catastrophic earthquake of 2011, in which the Cathedral basically fell apart, the city and the NZ government pledged funds to restore the Cathedral, which formed a special part of the Christchurch city centre. Works have been underway for a while.
In spite of the largely secular nature of NZ, I hadn’t heard a peep in opposition…. until a few weeks ago, when after the brutal murder of Muslims in several Christchurch mosques, apparently progressives began calling for the cathedral rebuild to be halted in favour of some multi-faith centre.
It is kind of gobsmackingly callous, this – to call for the restoration work being performed after one national disaster to be dumped in favour of a different restoration work for a more recent national disaster.
In spite of the largely secular nature of NZ, I hadn’t heard a peep in opposition
Then you missed the court cases, the countless hearings, the synods and the bellowings of various politicians. It’s been a saga of recrimination right from the get go.
The thing is that the Anglican church really didn’t want it. It was expensive to rebuild and maintain, and unsuited to good services. To many of us here a pastiche “European” building doesn’t say New Zealand anyway. It says “British colony” and while that’s what we were, many of us don’t see why we have to waste millions to in favour of that — just as I wouldn’t expect an ex-Communist country to waste money rebuilding Communist era relics that collapsed.
It was the secular types who most wanted it rebuilt, not the church. Many liked its presence in the square, and it wasn’t their problem that it was expensive and unsuitable. Eventually a new bishop was brought in who supported the rebuild.
But opposition there was, and plenty of it.
apparently progressives began calling for the cathedral rebuild to be halted in favour of some multi-faith centre.
They were just waiting for the right tragedy to make such a callous move acceptable.
As a Saggitarius, I find us to be extremely hateful
Any calls for a multi-faith centre have been very minor. They’ve not been in the sites I read.
In the modern world there are “calls” for all sorts of things. Sometimes no more than one person with a social media megaphone.
It’s not like it can happen, which they’d know if they were people of any faith. Who funds a “multifaith” centre, when committed to an actual faith?
The only one I know of is the Christian denominations sharing sites in Israel. And that’s not without major issues.
Nothing to see here, just your usual severely educated individual, showing just how severely educated they are:
https://twitter.com/LibraryJournal/status/1118232615847329802
game designer is a career, a very real one. As is game developer.
Tabletop game designer. But never mind that; video game designer wasn’t a career in the 1990s either. Like professional sports, a small number of people made good money doing it but most either went broke or got out.
Interesting background, thanks Chester.
The Christian focus ought to be on the church that Christ formed – a society of the faithful – and not on the church as it is often mistaken for in general society, a building or group of buildings.
Still, there is something to be said for preserving one’s past and the heritage of one’s past. And the cathedral is a symbol of a time when church and state cooperated, as opposed to today, when any such cooperation is likely to be met with bitching and bickering from the usual sorts.
. . . . a symbol of a time when church and state cooperated, as opposed to today . . .
. . . except, of course, for, oh, Russia, lesseee, Saudi Arabia , . . . oh, Iran . . . . where aside from being quite current examples, all of these also providing utterly luminous examples of the great joys of having
one’s government linked to some totally random faith . . .
Separation of church and state is a sound concept, but it ought not to rule out cooperation. If the paranoia of the progressive left about the involvement of church-in-state was accurate, the UK – which has the Anglican church written into the laws of the land – would never have been a functioning democracy. Nor would the US, NZ or Australia.
Separation of church and state is a sound concept, but it ought not to rule out cooperation.
Quite.