Stephen Lindsay

[Stephen Lindsay @slindsay]

@paul_jkrause It has its moments (the beginning and the wild ending) but large sections are an unreadable slog. Also the paganism and heavy-handed mockery of Christianity turned me off. Melville himself called it a “wicked book” “broiled in hellfire”.

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@ramez The way questions are asked influences the results. This one was designed to bait MAGA types: “…get the country back on track” = “make America great again”. If the question had been “…bring about the change the country needs” or something the results would have been opposite.

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@CanaAcademy I got an error “Invalid promo code”

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@econcallum “Share of businesses” is the wrong metric for the conclusion you are trying to draw. Couldn’t it just be that Utah has more businesses? You only need a certain number of restaurants. Utah has a thriving entrepreneurial culture.

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@patrickc On why Russian lit was so good for that brief period. The best literature comes where two worlds intersect, one of them being the West. The cultural collision as Russian was rapidly westernizing brought out amazing contemplative lit. Similar with Kipling’s Kim in India.

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@RykerJackson97 Could be different if the survey specified Evanglical vs non-Evangelical Protestants.

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@JHWeissmann On a similar note, other high return investments the government should consider: https://t.co/Nc6ZhrdmOV

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Arnold Toynbee's spiritual experiences https://t.co/GGPg0pVNKz

[Stephen Lindsay @slindsay]

@paul_jkrause Moby Dick. Some fun moments, and I love the quirky narrator’s voice, but Melville’s persistent mockery of Christianity and his narcissistic love of the sound of his own pen eventually turn me off.

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@washingtonpost Eroded state regulations = expanded family freedoms. Not a bad thing.

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@nfergus @ESYudkowsky You are a reasonable guy. I hope you don’t actually believe this nonsense.

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@paul_jkrause Yeah, it’s so good. Anna Karenina too.

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@paul_jkrause Natural Right and History. As you know, I have deep disagreements with Strauss, but I have to admit this is a work of genius and gripping reading.

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@voegelin_view Thanks for posting! My exposure has been to the “deliberately tendentious account of the natural law in Natural Right and History” passed over by the author, and Strauss’s quip that natural law is a “contradiction in terms.” I’ll look this over to better understand the other view

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@designerofevery @jburnmurdoch Yeah, that’s what I wanted to say too. LGBTQ clubs were not ubiquitous in high schools before Millennials were there. Anti-Christian and anti-capitalist messages everywhere. The leftist indoctrination runs much deeper and earlier in the Millennial generation.

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@ATabarrok @thee_snek Good to see Lake Winnebago get some attention. And yes, my Wisconsin has a problem.

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@nfergus “Americans have a remarkably high tolerance of excess mortality” compared with Europe - I would prefer to frame it as being a little closer to freedom along the freedom-protection values axis. Is your insinuation of subconscious racial motives just signaling for Bloomberg?

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@andy_matuschak There’s also Bergson’s idea of “elan vital” which seems to be a similar concept but applied on a societal level. Also from a book published in 1907. Wikipedia tells me that William James was going to write the intro to the English translation before he passed away.

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@ccpecknold From another perspective, if the US hadn’t taken an “all religions and none” approach in 1789, what are the odds Catholicism would have been protected by the majority Protestants? Aren’t we better off today because of the Lockean approach?