Tag Archives: society

Reactionary

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Gil Bailie

The Catholic theologian Henri de Lubac was no reactionary. Quite the contrary, he was a man of great learning and heartfelt sympathy for those caught in the turmoil of history. In one instance, however, he was reactionary: “In examining this … Continue reading →

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Coda to Report from the machines…”please hold for the next available customer support representative”

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Gil Bailie and I had a short conversation this afternoon with an AI ‘customer support’ assistant developed by our cell phone company to handle most of the mundane chores answering customer’s questions and facilitating simple account matters. In the days … Continue reading →

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Awakening in the New Year

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? Soren Kierkegaard Some weeks ago I reflected on our American Thanksgiving tradition of civic proclamations of corporate repentance for our sins and gratitude … Continue reading →

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Election Day Thoughts

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Gil Bailie

“Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before … has the authority of the past been sacrificed with a more conscious effort of forgetfulness. Forgetfulness is now the curricular … Continue reading →

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Mimetic Tangles

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Gil Bailie

“If we project our own mimetic tangles upon society as a whole, the more entangled we are, the more rigid and tyrannical the social order will appear to us, even if, in reality, it is collapsing. To revolutionists of the … Continue reading →

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Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground Episode 2: 2000 years and no new god

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Gil Bailie

A presentation by Gil Bailie recorded in 2003 at the College of the Holy Cross – “The Anatomy of Evil” conference .

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A Fool’s Errand

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Gil Bailie

The preeminent school of self-sacrificial love is the natural family, consisting of children born of the nuptial fidelity of their biological parents. The school of self-governing virtue is a healthy and well-formed moral conscience. A society will conduce to the … Continue reading →

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Liberation of man…social emancipation

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Randy Coleman-Riese

For those who speak of being on the right or wrong side of history — that old Hegelian-Marxist axiom — the renown French theologian has a reminder: “‘Liberation of man,’ understood as a social emancipation, is a human undertaking which, … Continue reading →

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a scientistic society…

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Randy Coleman-Riese

In a “scientistic society,” argued the Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce, “the abolition of every meta-empirical order of truth requires that the family be dissolved. No merely sociological consideration can justify keeping it.” Del Noce saw the sexual revolution as … Continue reading →

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