Pile Of Prep

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “My own impression is that the net gain was more modest and more questionable than is customarily said. The Northern victory did preserve the Union. But, despite our nationalist “mystique,” our federation of states is a practical condition maintained only by the willing consent of the states and the people. And secession, today, is still not a dead issue … The other […]

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 “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 […]

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 […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “The world we live in is a simulation. I don’t mean a computer game or hologram, so much as I mean something so tightly controlled and monitored that we are trapped, suppressed, our work stolen, our energies used ruthlessly by people who are so accustomed to being incandescently rich and in control, they will do anything to keep it." - Elizabeth Nickson, Our […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of PrepVeritatis et Sapientiae “When grown men and women preen to be called something; when they take some sordid little pleasure in being classified and categorized; when they post (and boy, do they post!) about how to be a Gen-Xr or a Gen-Yr is to be the Best Generation; when they do all this, they give obvious evidence of an underlying sickness—of an itch that generational […]