The Mike Church Show Episode 326 Podcast: The Politics Of The Monasteries

March 22, 2017 7

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Mandeville, LA – The Politics Of The Monasteries – All the literary rage these days is Rod Dreher’s The Benedict option book though we have no signs that Christians are constructing monasteries or even building Superdome like structures they will call churches while throwing some leftover coin into buying an isolated place for a mini-dome “retreat”. Now comes Victor Davis Hanson in what appears to be a gentle rebuke of what he calls these “monasteries of the mind”. It’s an interesting read for a Wisdom Wednesday: “More and more Americans today are becoming Stoic dropouts. They are not illiberal, and certainly not reactionaries, racists, xenophobes, or homophobes. They’re simply exhausted by our frenzied culture. They don’t like lectures from the privileged and the wealthy on the pitfalls of privilege and wealth. In response, they don’t hike out to monasteries, fall into fetal positions, or write Meditations. Instead, they have checked out mentally from American popular entertainment, sports, and the progressive cultural project in general. But aren’t sports at least still sacrosanct? Hardly. The new monastics were already watching less and less of the National Football League before the televised tantrums of Colin Kaepernick. After his multimillionaire stunts seemed to catch on with other players, many viewers quit entirely. The appeasement of his crudity by Kaepernick’s multimillionaire bosses and teammates might explain why NFL audiences (and revenues) are down.” While Hanson doesn’t mention The Benedict Option, these “monasteries of the mind” are caricatured as retreats from reality, the reality that ‘Muricah has created though Hanson can’t bring himself to bring the accusation. I just did.

Making The Military Industrial Complex Great Again – I voted for Donald Trump for 3 reasons, one is he promised pro-lifers progress we’ve never seen before; second he repeatedly stated “the era of nation building is over” and third he still provides the greatest threat to the Deep State a federal figure has ever provided. I accepted that he would probably be co-opted by the ‘Murican exceptionalists into making undeclared warfare great again… boy howdy. President Trump is loading the MIC offices that matter with shills for our lethal, threatening, killing industry. This report from The Intercept shows how swift and completely the Bomb, Bomb, Bomb -think John Bolton- hucksters have infiltrated the MIC. As my friend Laurie Calhoun says “We Kill Because We Can” and now President Trump is helping the MIC to “Make Killing Great Again.” Sad.

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