Pile Of Prep

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "If you can make people see only names and never things you can instruct them that it is the height of wisdom to ignore the evidence and believe whatever they are told. This is what is done, in fact, by the media managers who manufacture our opinions. They are the architects of a parallel reality. For example, the process of ritual humiliation at work is known as an appraisal. Training usually means stultification, if not […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "It’s not just adult coloring books anymore, but all sorts of stocking stuffers. Toy companies are expanding special lines of products that appeal to kidults. Legos now has more than one hundred kits explicitly designed for grown-downs. Stuffed animals, dolls, and action figures are all the rage among those 18 and up. McDonald’s recently jumped on the bandwagon by offering Happy Meals for kidults, complete with a free toy inside." - John Horvat, Why Are […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "It is here that Catholics have a special responsibility. They are not involved in the immediate issues of the conflict in the same way as are the political parties, for they belong to a supranational spiritual society, which is more organically united than any political body which possesses an autonomous body of principles and doctrines on which to base their judgements. Moreover, they have a historical mission to maintain and strengthen the unity of Western […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "For those who wish to resist the power of evil, the Denethor option is never an option. Suicide is the final defeat. It is the triumph of evil, the victory of death over life. Instead, we need to take the Frodo option. We need to bear the burden of evil without succumbing to it. We need to be ring-bearers, not ring-wearers. We need to take up our cross, which is nothing but the weight of […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Action, the only activity that goes on directly between men without the intermediary of things or matter, corresponds to the human condition of plurality, to the fact that men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world. While all aspects of the human condition are somehow related to politics, this plurality is specifically the condition-—not only the conditio sine qua non, but the conditio per quam—of all political life." - Hannah Arendt, The […]