Category: Aphorisms and Observations
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Diversity
Opposing natural diversity, leftists seek to impose social diversity by law.
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A Wage of Wussification
Creeping wussification is contributory to the anti-gunnery of the liberty-inimical Left.
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Vanitas
Is vanity the last word? Or does the emptiness of this life point to a fullness beyond it? Vanity, I say, is the penultimate word.
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Ersatz Maternity
Having renounced natural maternity, many women today seek an outlet in the political: they seek to become the nannies of the nanny state.
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Propinquity and Politeness
Treat your family members with the same respect as you would strangers. Unfortunately, propinquity militates against politeness. Conservatives understand that a certain formality in our relations with others, both within and without the family, helps maintain respect. Formality helps keep in check the contempt bred of familiarity.
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The Long and the Short of it
Life is too short for a proper appreciation of its brevity.
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Truth No Defense
The truth is no defense in the court of the politically correct. In present-day academe, all must toe the party line and woe to him who doesn't. The universities have become leftist seminaries.
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Transhumanism
The hubris of humanism achieves its apotheosis in the absurdity of transhumanism.
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Opium and Utopium
If religion is the opium of the masses, utopium is the opium of the intellectuals.
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The Ascesis of the Lower
It is useful to suppose oneself composed of a lower and a higher self. Much good comes from denying the former, good that accrues to the latter.
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Two Marks of Maturity
One is the ability to take a joke and the other is the ability to live without dogmatic pseudo-certainty while striving for genuine certainty.
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Born of Propinquity, Dead of Distance
Most friendships are born of propinquity and die the death of distance.
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At the Corner of Spirit and Flesh
Bodily lusts exist at the intersection of spirit and flesh. Neither merely bodily nor merely mental, they trouble neither angel nor beast. They trouble man, who is neither.
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Socializing and Sociability
An excess of socializing can be be harmful to one's sociability.
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Superiority and Superbia
The truly superior do not succumb to superbia.