Muck

Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

"Such is the case with what occurred in Brazil in the 1960s, the world’s largest Catholic country, and which coincided with the Second Vatican Council. The leftist president João Goulart, with the support of many progressive members of the Brazilian hierarchy,"

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

anything important happen in the past few months

[Athwart @Athwart_Mag]

Really comprehensive study from @BarnasJoe on, among other, Heinrich Pesch, S.J., and how to place families at the center of our political economy.

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@BarnasJoe @Athwart_Mag @CatholicEcon @phattonez 🔥

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

"The antidote to both lust and acedia is not so much heroic acts of mortification as much as prayer combined with physical activity. Even people who live an intellectual or spiritual life need physical activity to keep them from depression and acedia."

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

Someone who has mocked well ordered nature in small ways will often sink into mocking the purest and best

[Father Schmidt @FrDarinSchmidt]

St. John the Baptist had such concern for the soul of King Herod that he risked his own head in warning Herod of his sin.

Would we even be willing to risk awkwardness, hurt feelings, being "canceled," to warn others of the dangers of sin today?
https://t.co/6sG0t1Z7oI

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@MatthewJLB @MatthewJRoth I think the police have to be as connected as possible to those they are policing. I think this is a key problem in many of the worst abuses/tragedies, and all of the great policy or structures in the world don't replace this

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

the left wants:

federalized local police
more wars
racial quotas for many professions
forcibly break up suburbs
carbon taxes
favor corporations/unionization over small business
remove any abortion restrictions
gender ideology

that's not even the "far left", that's Biden/Harris.

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

the point here isn't "trump good biden bad" or "right good left bad," but being honest about where each of those affinities is right now. the left isn't just "oh, some taxes and people have healthcare," it's a whole basket of antipathy, wokeisms, and tyrannies

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

The libertarian moment has long passed, a vast majority of right wing voters in 2016 no longer believed in economic naturalism. The right is only ascendant because it abandoned that for economic nationalism.

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@MatthewJLB @MatthewJRoth i just imagine the intelligence tools of the feds now fully in the hands of every local cop/police agency when I think of this. I dunno about going against subsidiarity as such, but I think in practice it seems absurd.

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@TaraAnnThieke I think right and left are real dispositions but we can't project out too far from that

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@TaraAnnThieke one of the mental viruses we may need to disabuse ourselves is that some "thing" always leads to some other "thing," i.e. "neoliberalism always leads to fascism," the terms are too fungible to deal in such abstracts, and these can be highly distracting.

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@Traveleriname in the sense that the control actually exerted often isn't explicitly governmental, and is veiled by the involvement of NGOs and corporate alliances (nearly all of which are left-aligned), yeah, definitely

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@MatthewJRoth I think the right is very amenable to these types of arguments, especially for manual labor.

I know everyone expresses disdain for the "right-left" paradigm but I think in Jouvenalian terms those are the most important dispositions, and that's where persuasion must happen

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@MatthewJRoth I think this is where a national approach to healthcare comes in. A portion is provided by default by the nation, then your profession is responsible for a designated amount by class of work.

My father is an HVAC guy and 75% of workers' backs are destroyed by 55.

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@Traveleriname we're working with a spectrum here. The current dominant leftist regime - arguments about legitimacy aside - is characterized by this

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@MatthewJRoth the franchise model seems to create one family wage, a few pseudo family wages, then a lot of sub-rent wageslaves.

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@MatthewJRoth The good employers I've found at the local level are small businesses, usually ones that operate in some manual labor/craftsman capacity. Roofers, pest control, plumbers, flooring; virtually all of their employees are operating at more or less family wages, do quality work

[Muck @Integral_Muck]

@lelanddewolfe @MatthewJRoth There's a place for corporatization and even state ownership of certain things, but the way this is approached by many on the left is so bad it's not even aimed at that, it's just a centralization of ownership with mostly paper-only benefits for workers.