Kevin Karam

So excited to be at the Symbolic World Summit. Excellent speakers!

@rad_ionesco @ConceptualJames Have you ever heard of Death Valley National Park?

@ConceptualJames National Park? It’s a fuckin desert 🐪 😂

Masada stands out almost 1300 feet above the surrounding plain in the Judean Desert, but its top is only about 100 feet above sea level. What a fascinating place.

God protect our Maronite Monks! 🤍✝️🇱🇧

@ConceptualJames I still wonder if Person & Act by Karol Wojtyla would help toward building a positive vision of the individual. It's a work often overlooked in philosophical circles.

The psychology behind the meme is nihilistic liberation. The group has to be escaped at all costs so the individual can find itself, not to live, but to die. This is the result of mass psychological operation and collectivist formation failing just as it did in the USSR. It's a preference for the solitude of death to the prison of life under the circumstances life has become. The popularity of this meme is a screaming siren, demanding a healthy theory of the individual and a positive vision for his future that the old theories, narratives, and visions cannot satisfy.

I’ve just received the very sad news that John Allen has died. For more than thirty years, John has been the dean of Catholic journalists in the English-speaking world. There was no more intelligent, fair-minded, balanced, and insightful commentator on Church life than John. He was also an exceptionally decent and kind person. I first came to know him when he interviewed me ten years ago for a book about my life and work. We met for several lengthy sessions in my home, and I was massively impressed by the range of his knowledge, the intensity of his passion for the Church, and his good humor. Many people talk about building bridges and bringing warring factions together, but John actually did those things, both through his graceful writing and his personal charm. I will miss him as a friend, and I will also miss him as a much-needed voice of reason and sanity in the Church. May he rest in peace.

@PaulAnleitner Placing "Belief in Inherent Morality" seems dangerous to me. What does Inherent Morality mean? Is it the same as Objective Morality?

The most creative people I know experience a strange kind of creative exhaustion during periods of intense political turmoil that is different than what most people feel. It’s like a heavy static noise that blocks their usually heightened abilities of perception. My working theory is that elite-level creatives have highly tuned defense mechanisms against “groupthink.” But high political/culture war tensions in the zeitgeist place intense groupthink demands on everyone. So the groupthink anti-virus program that runs in the background of elite-level creatives has to run harder than usual to resist succumbing to the virus. If they give in, they gain immediate group acceptance but it costs them their unique superpower. If you’re feeling that, let me just encourage you: Do not give in.

@PixassoHQ @stats_feed Personally, I think it’s a warping effect when you try to represent a curved object on a flat surface. That why on all maps countries are stretched at the poles but squished at the equator. I’m sure there’s a geometric theory or proof for it, I just haven’t looked it up…

@stats_feed weird how the map isn't to scale

🇮🇷 The true size of Iran

Scientists used to talk about God like this regularly. Then they didn’t for most of my life. Then, suddenly in just the last few years, they did again. I could talk for hours with @hubermanlab about this.

If you looking for a place to listen to the Vatican II Documents see them either on YouTube or Spotify: youtube.com/c/KevinKaramEn… open.spotify.com/show/6APeN92pL…

@unclenoggie/note/c-158821314?r=g4ph8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@unclenoggie/n… Frank Zappa clip is making the rounds again. If I could ask him a question, I would have liked to like to ask: you have a morality without a theological basis?

Please consider supporting Brebeuf teachers by donating to my marathon effort. I’ll be running the Monumental Marathon in Indianapolis Nov 8th in honor of the excellent Faculty at Brebeuf. Please follow the link! gofund.me/199f5df9

Suprising things that you find in the Vatican II documents - within the limits of morality and common utility, of course.

Gaudium et Spes #59. "...within the limits of morality and common utility, man can freely search for the truth, express his opinion and publish it; that he can practice any art he chooses; that finally, he can avail himself of true information concerning events of a public nature

Last quote: " Political freedom is endangered in its foundations as soon as the universal moral values, upon whose shared possession the self-discipline of a free society depends, are no longer vigorous enough to restrain the passions and shatter the selfish inertia of men."

"In this sense democracy is more than a political experiment; it is a spiritual and moral enterprise."

I started reading John Courtney Murray, SJ's "We Hold These Truths". I sense is, we will need text like this to reconstruct our political consensus.

@josephnollasj It doesn't refute everything, but the Easter Bunny is not actually a pagan symbol: youtube.com/watch?v=0m2ZQa…

“Easter is a pagan celebration that Christians used to fool pagans into practicing Christianity!” Say what you will about the pagans, but don’t insult their intelligence by suggesting they were too dumb to realize that they were changing religions