TheKingDude

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “Because even by Goldsmith’s day unbridled greed, set free from the healthy, cheerful restraints of Christianity, ran toward ruthless Epicureanism which disguised its radical irrationalism under the painted rubric of the Age of Reason, the so-called Enlightenment, in reality a dark misology which said that reason is the instrument of man and not of truth, and that we are slaves to truthless […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “The ancients distinguished four degrees of knowledge: the poetic, where truths are grasped intuitively as when you trust another’s love; the rhetorical, where we are persuaded by evidence, but without conclusive proof, admitting that we might be wrong, as when we vote for a political candidate; next the dialectical mode in which we conclude to one of two opposing arguments beyond a […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “These people - the profiteers, the donors, the politicians, the shady NGOs and the pundits - found their comfortable existence threatened with extinction. Taken together, this class represents the Liberal consensus whose stranglehold accounts for the hypoxia of our times. A victory in which they played no part had made them obsolete. Winning by chance had ruined them. In the absence of […]