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Manuscript in progress - There and Back Again: Catholicism and Authoritarian Politics from 1939 to the Present.
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Daniel Rober
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Daniel Rober
@ProfDanRober
Associate Professor of Catholic Studies @sacredheartuniv. PhD @FordhamNYC MA @UChicago BA @NotreDame. Theology, Film, Music, Urbanism, Culture.
New York, NY Katılım Temmuz 2016
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J.D. left out an important proviso about who’s willing to pay those prices.
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@KSoltisAnderson @DKThomp I hope you mentioned Halloween candy in this request.
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I emailed Derek from the other side of the planet with an urgent podcast request, like a guest at a wedding begging the DJ to play her favorite dance floor anthem.
Behold! He delivered. Can’t wait to hear it.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
New newsletter/pod: A PHILOSOPHER'S ONE-WORD THEORY OF WHY THE WORLD FEELS SO WEIRD Agnes Callard is a philosopher at the University of Chicago. Today she explains her theory of "the uni-context"—what it is, where it comes from, how it's transformed our experience of being alive, and how it explains: - the modern obsession with distraction and the management of our attention - why everything in art and design seems the same these days - why the news media is so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time - how every aspect of modern life becoming a global market makes it so hard to stop comparing ourselves to others - how telecommunications tech—from radio, to TV, to smartphones—succeeds by tapping into our "deep aversion to world closure" youtube.com/watch?v=LOdvmB…
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@Richard_Vixen They shifted the policy (which is required by law) to encompass local residents only.
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@MatthewSitman Will do; my first time seeing Bob so looking forward in a first-time, long-time kind of way, figuring I better get on that since he’s 85. Recent setlist changes interesting.
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@ProfDanRober The whole KYE crew will be there, say hey if feasible
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Any other KYE listeners seeing Bob at Forrest Hills in just over a week?
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@moduspwned1 @KnowYrEnemyPod There were like 20 boxes of books on this sidewalk.
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Extremely @KnowYrEnemyPod-coded book haul off the street in my neighborhood today. They also had basically all of Bellow (in poor shape or I already owned and more Bloom.
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Also got this gem (pages in great condition as typical of Image from this era).
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@MargaretPBrady Sure, my point is that appealing to the simple faith of peasants when you’re otherwise caught up in intellectual arguments is not a good-faith approach.
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@ProfDanRober some of them may have invincible consciences though.
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“I wish to live a simple Catholic life and ignore the pope and his pronouncements.” Well too bad, bucko, the internet exists and you lack invincible ignorance for going to the SSPX chapel.
Daniel Rober@ProfDanRober
One of the beauties and tensions of Catholicism is it’s a religion with both intellectual glories and folk devotions that offers access to different kinds of people. This becomes a problem when intellectuals try to skirt difficult questions by appealing to folk belief.
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Yes you can deal with ideas in other media, but books have rightly been treated as the most portable and translatable way of instilling discipline in this regard. Good luck becoming a serious art, music, cinema appreciator if you don’t/won’t read.
Daniel Rober@ProfDanRober
@franzsherbert Reflective of the now-passed era of bad undergrad writing assuming books=novels. Also plays into the anti-Great Books stuff which is really about challenging the notion that educated people should be expected to deal with ideas instead of just going with the flow.
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@franzsherbert Reflective of the now-passed era of bad undergrad writing assuming books=novels. Also plays into the anti-Great Books stuff which is really about challenging the notion that educated people should be expected to deal with ideas instead of just going with the flow.
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The real issue here is central Suffolk sprawl has made Queens-Nassau traffic much worse than it used to be. Something like toll/congestion pricing on parkways/LIE to build this kind of transit extension is probably best solution. Political will a problem compared to bridge.
JokerMakeupJacobite 🇮🇪👹🐋🐢🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸@ClwnPrncCharlie
@constans the bridge needs an LIRR extension connecting to the new have lines, this would literally supercharge the whole metro area.
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Golf cart trend in warmer-weather burbs is basically this.
Canderous “el Yacaré” Ordoliberal 🐊🇦🇷🧉🐧@butleriano
Gen X retirement community where everything looks like a suburb from the 70s and you can only move around by e-bike and drink water from garden hoses.
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One of the beauties and tensions of Catholicism is it’s a religion with both intellectual glories and folk devotions that offers access to different kinds of people. This becomes a problem when intellectuals try to skirt difficult questions by appealing to folk belief.
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It’s the “One Weird Trick” of devotions of which there a few others in Catholicism.
Margarita G. Mitchell@xthemasterand
I don't get the obsession with the shroud of Turin. Jesus rose from the dead regardless of its legitimacy. We can regard it piously without it being a cornerstone of our faith.
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@Dorothy410berry There is a core of 30% of the population that are hardcore, a bunch who accept some but not all, but the key driver in my opinion is ability to control/channel one’s resentment. Particularly key for Covid which is downstream of much else since.
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Look up what Trinity Church Wall St in NYC looked like before they cleaned it. Would’ve needed a history book to know it was brownstone.
Peter Moskos@PeterMoskos
@bfurnas Years ago cars clogged ALL the streets (now just some) and the buildings were covered with dark black soot.
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