Fr. Kenneth Allen

Hope is a great falsifier; let the intelligence rectify her by seeing to it that the enjoyment is superior to the desire. Balthasar Graçian - 1647 (Tr. Maurer 1992)

En l’an 3000 après qui ?

Captured by the Curiosity rover on January 27, 2023. Beautiful. 🙏🏻

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Doctor fixed A severe Scoliosis with Halo gravity traction method in children's (straighten the spine).

Friedrich Hayek delivered the most devastating blow to collectivism ever written when he published "The Constitution of Liberty" in 1960, and most people still haven't grasped its revolutionary implications. Hayek built his case on a simple but profound insight: human knowledge remains forever scattered and incomplete. No central authority can possibly aggregate the millions of daily decisions, preferences, and discoveries that drive a complex society forward. The socialist calculation problem wasn't just an economic inconvenience—it represented an epistemological impossibility. When you concentrate decision-making power in the hands of planners, you guarantee inferior outcomes because you've severed the feedback mechanisms that allow decentralized knowledge to coordinate spontaneously. But Hayek went further than pure economics. He traced the philosophical roots of liberty back to the rule of law itself. True law doesn't grant privileges to specific groups or pursue particular outcomes—it establishes abstract rules that apply equally to everyone. The moment governments start picking winners and losers (looking at you, modern Western World), they abandon the legal foundations that make freedom possible. Hayek saw this clearly: discretionary government power and individual liberty cannot coexist. The book's real genius lies in connecting evolutionary processes to social institutions. Just as biological evolution produces complex organisms through trial and error, cultural evolution generates sophisticated institutions—property rights, common law, market prices—that nobody consciously designed. These emergent orders vastly outperform anything human planners could create from scratch. Yet politicians and intellectuals keep believing they can engineer better societies through conscious control. Sixty-four years later, we're still fighting the same battle Hayek identified: spontaneous order versus constructed systems, dispersed knowledge versus central planning, constitutional limits versus administrative discretion. Every economic crisis, every regulatory failure, every unintended consequence proves Hayek right all over again.

Captive of Solitude

O, Saint Joseph, how great was your faith! You believed God against hope, against all human probability and appearances, in a supernatural way. You trusted when you could not understand, when everything seemed to go against you. Oh, how you have glorified God! – Saint Peter Julian Eymard

How awful.

"Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house? is not the apparent rebuke of Jesus. Early tradition maintains a revelation of nested truth: Jesus isn't rejecting Joseph; he's clarifying a hierarchy. Joseph is the father on earth who mirrors the Father in heaven.

“Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been seeking you anxiously” Lk 2:48 St. Augustine notes that fatherhood is rooted in charity and authority, not just biology. Mary, who knows the truth of the Virgin Birth best, is the one who unhesitatingly calls Joseph "your father."

May the merits of Your most holy Mother’s spouse help us, we beseech You, O Lord, that through his intercession we may receive what we cannot obtain by our own efforts. St. Joseph, our friend, pray for us!

Did anyone watch the Oscars? That used to be Big.

Amazing - Nothing is going to slow down. Cortical Cloud is Wetware-as-a-Service remote access to live human neurons (grown from stem cells on silicon chips) that process info and learn like real brains.

@konstructivizm This stunning photograph captures a moment when clouds surround the moon, coincidentally creating an appearance similar to Saturn 🪐 Photographer: Francisco Sojuel

@walterwhitepill #mood

@PadreAllen Sometimes, for a few moments I cease to be impish and whimsical and become dark and forlorn, like the evil Icelandic hockey team in Mighty Ducks 2

The mosquito drones are here and watching you. We will have trillions of these all over the place in a decade.

@CauseofourJoy @UrbanHermit15 I haven’t even watched the movie yet. ✍🏻

@UrbanHermit15 @PadreAllen I’m in tears just remembering this scene!

Its been over 40 years since I last saw this movie. I loved it then as I do now. The scene of the encounter between Marcelino and the Christ of the attic is the emotional climax of the movie Marcelino Pan y Vino and represents the miracle born from the innocence of a child who, upon seeing a statue of the crucified Jesus, genuinely believes that the man is hungry and cold. Moved by compassion upon seeing the wounds and blood on the face of the image, Marcelino decides to share his food. Tenderness, sensitivity, innocence, and faith.

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“Set fire to communist party headquarters” I haven’t felt like this since I watched my son take his first steps