{"id":5670,"date":"2017-03-21T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/the-new-monastics-of-the-mind\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:03:40","slug":"the-new-monastics-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/the-new-monastics-of-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Monastics of the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

My man Hanson with another<\/a> fascinating column.  Excerpts:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Monasteries of the mind are an effort to reconnect with the past and disengage psychologically from the present. For millions of Americans, their music, their movies, their sports, and their media are not current fare. Instead, they have mentally moved to mountaintops or inaccessible valleys, where they can live in the past or dream of the future, but certainly not dwell in the here and now.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Count me in. (I have also been known to hole up physically in inaccessible valleys for weeks at a time.) But why? Several reasons, one of them being the lamestream media:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Monastics are tuning out the media. Listening to Brian Williams warn of fake news would be like paying attention to Miley Cyrus\u2019s reminder about the need for abstinence. New York Times<\/em> columnist Nicholas Kristof, who is often said to be the ethical conscience of the paper\u2019s op-ed page, recently begged the IRS to commit a felony by sending him Trump\u2019s tax returns. He went so far as to provide his own address to facilitate the crime: \u201cBut if you\u2019re in IRS and have a certain president\u2019s tax return that you\u2019d like to leak, my address is: NYT, 620 Eighth Ave., NY NY 10018.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone belatedly might have gotten the message. Rhodes scholar Rachel Maddow got a hold of two pages from Trump\u2019s 2005 tax return. On MSNBC she went the full Roswell-UFO mode in hyping the scoop until she finally grasped that a twelve-year-old-tax return revealed that her Trump-as-Snidely-Whiplash had paid a greater tax (percentage-wise and absolutely) than \u201cyou didn\u2019t build that\u201d Barack Obama paid. Such an inadvertent demonstration is not the purpose for which a Rachel Maddow was hired.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If Paul Krugman can win the Nobel prize, and Bill Clinton and Rachel 'Mad Dog' Maddow are Rhodes Scholars, then those awards have become well-nigh meaningless.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My man Hanson with another fascinating column.  Excerpts: Monasteries of the mind are an effort to reconnect with the past and disengage psychologically from the present. For millions of Americans, their music, their movies, their sports, and their media are not current fare. Instead, they have mentally moved to mountaintops or inaccessible valleys, where they … Continue reading “The New Monastics of the Mind”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-monks-and-monasticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}