“Life is about balance: Work and play hard, eat well and wisely – and nap with enthusiasm.”
History, until lately, was either Ci theocracy or Dc oligarchy. Gaius Marius, the Nazarene and the Apostle Paul inadvertently fathered Ds civilization, which is everything you think of as being actually civilized.
Marxism is Ci subverting Ds – long-since in abdication – along with Calvin and Luther’s Cs, a new theocracy taking over. But: Ci is terrible in chaos, as we are seeing, and Dc is poised to take over everything with Dc speed and precision.
You’re looking for a Ds leader – Trump (Id) is not him, nor is Rand Paul (Cs) – and if you don’t find one, that could be it for Ds as a civilizational strategy.
I won’t live to see this play out, lucky me, but this is an epochal moment in human history: We must decide if we are one species or two.
Why are there no Ds leaders in politics – or business for that matter? You have to have a lot of either C or I to fight Ci – plus which, the man you seek has kids of his own to look out for.
Credit Loyola, too, but there was a Pauline genius in denominating “fathers” who did not themselves have children. That ideal, leadership as family – what’s best for all of us is what’s best for each of us – is absent from government and commerce for the same reason it is absent from the home: Almost none of us is wise enough to want it.
In other news:
Housing Wire: Mortgage rates stuck at 2.88% amid rise in COVID cases.
Mike DelPrete: iBuyer Profits At Risk With Falling Home Price Appreciation.
Redfin.com: Housing Market Update: Despite Declining New Listings, Pending Sales Still Up 6% From 2020.
City Journal: From Empty to Empty: After 9/11, New York didn’t rebuild wisely – and that failure hurts the city in the current crisis.
Theodore Dalrymple: What We Have to Lose: Our civilization is more precious, and more fragile, than most people suppose.
Christopher Rufo: Don’t Be Evil: A Google employee program claims that America is a “system of white supremacy” and that all Americans are “raised to be racist.”
