Who is Sarah Pslin? Don't you mean Sarah Palin?

You might want to fix that typo in the first sentence of this entry. I understand that the 's' key sits right next to the 'a' key, but such a glaring error makes you look pretty silly. It also undermines your argument, calling your credibility as a "journalist" into question. I figure you probably don't make enough money, if any, to hire a copy editor.

At any rate, best of luck to you in your random jottings.

Even though I am a rather pedantic person myself, I feel sorry for someone like Phelan who is so obsessed with pedantry that it ruins his ability to enjoy the semantic content of what he reads.

In any event, the liberals are correct about conservativism limiting people. But just like sonnets (a rigid, limited form of poetry) are far superior to modern unstructured poetry, so is a conservative political order superior to a liberal one.

But not too conservative - as in most things there is a balance, a nuance that, in these days, I find mostly only conservatives understand.

P.S. Has not modern liberalism become, in fact, even more limiting than conservatism? Who persecutes heretics more in the USA than Modern American Liberals?

Palin just announced that she has decided to resign as governor of Alaska. Wow!

Nothing works without limitations. Modern artists and poets, who imagine they are creating with untrammeled freedom, are usually conformists, always keeping a finger to the wind of the most recent fad and theory. They need some limits.They are really the least free, just because of their lack of limits

I remember in the late 60's a high school friend of mine entered an art school. This was a time when a few hippies and long-hairs were beginning to be seen about... but that school was 100% hippie in style. Everyone wore hippie garb! It was actully one on the most extreme examples of conformity I'd ever seen, although I didn't quite understand that at the time.

To be able to change and adapt, while remaining, in the essentials, the same. That's the big problem for every institution.

No merely human institution or philosophy has ever solved this. Conservatism is in a better position than most, because it has a core of truths that can be, and often are, applied creatively to changing circumstances. (As opposed to socia lism, which has a falsehood it its core; what Drucker called "salvation by society.")

Only the Roman Catholic Church has solved the problem.

This ought to be of the keenest interest even to atheists. However, it is fairly hard for anyone to "see" the Church from the outside. I can assure you that, seen from the inside, there is a stupefying amount of life and new growth, and fermentation that puts the biggest breweries to shame.

(Actually, this problem of "seeing" is the same with everything. One also cannot "see" Science or Engineering or History, until one has been "converted." That is, until one has had some sort of revelation of the power and beauty of these sciences. then the mind is prepared to make sense of their riches.)

Heh. Actually, it is an astonishing thing to me and a primary reason I, as a libertarian atheist, take Christianity seriously. Judaism as well (I toyed with converting to the latter at one point, but ended up not doing so).

What's is also astonishing are the "brights" who are heavily into "memetic evolution" and the "ideosphere" yet neglect this near singular example of a persistent meme set, treating it in other contexts as if it were pathological. It's why I don't take the wanna be deicides like Dawkins seriously.

I need to write a post on this, but it's not clear to me, as an atheist, that atheism is superior to Christianity as a ideology / life style, even if there is no Christian God. What is an atheist to do in such a situation?

Well, I myself would remain a Christian even if I knew there was no Christian God. It's just a much much bigger room. It would be unthinkable to go back to the old cramped quarters in the basement. And I'm sure it's superior as "ideology or life style." All the others just take fragments of Christian truth and make mono-maniacal systems out of them. (Sociallism, for instance, is a crazy inflation of the Christian idea of the Equality of Man.)

But it's all hard to convey, because it's paradoxical. Very paradoxical. (Which one might reasonably expect, dealing with something so impossibly different from us as a god who can just create a whole cosmos.) You must be willing to give up everything to... gain the real everything. (I'm not completely good at that myself, I hasten to add. But if the story is true, as it seems to be, I have an infinite amount of time to work on it.)

And you are there, if you could only see it, and ask for it. The Kingdom is at hand. Do you hunger for unattainable perfections? For things good, or true, or beautiful? Or to build stuff so it's just right? And yet you can never quite satisfied, even if you think you've found what you want? Hmmm? I'd wager money you are hungry for something, something you can't quite put your finger on....

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