You Are Safe From Harm on the Grid Saturday, March 06, 2004

Yeesh, many days since a post. What goes on?

Job fear, job work, writing work. My only good excuse for not blogging is that I've been posting on another forum like it was going out of style. More religious mishegais. Speaking of which, the latest issue of the New Criterion, everybody's favorite stuffy arts journal, contains an essay that's a real pleasure to read, about the future of religion in America. Content aside, the language is just spectacular: unabashedly erudite and anti-modern. Grumpy and conservative, of course, but the language drips blood. A sample:

Ultimately, however, our strident secularity may triumph, and with it all the pathologies of cultural exhaustion. Perhaps not only will the courts, and educational establishment, and ACLU, and all the other other leal servants of a constitutional principle that does not actually exist, succeed in purging the last traces of Christian belief from our licit social grammar, but we may all finally, by forces of persuasion impossible to foresee, be conducted out of the darkness of our immemorial superstitions, nationalisms, moral prejudices and retrograde loyalties into the radiant and pure universe of the International Criminal Court, reproductive choice, and the Turner Prize.

Zing!

@ 11:37:00 PM,

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