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OK, so there’s something reflexive about this. At my other blog, I posted for those interested in watching the videos.

This is theory, or something like it.
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Does, apparently, exist.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face–for ever.
(spoken by O’Brien; Orwell, 1984)

from an extended discussion in quotations at my Baylor blog, a tiny snippet:

from our present via media—facilitation of divorce—can only result the era when the young lady in reduced circumstances will no longer turn governess but will be open to engagement as wife at a reasonable stipend. (Francis Thompson on Shelley)

(post title refers to a Tears For Fears song. you know if you know)

then, to think “the culture” matters

or signifies

or has substance

or is

to be in a culture where, being a Christian dedicated to the least involvement of the State in the church’s life, pro or con, yea or nay, I am one of the feared and loathed oppressors

to be constantly inundated by debates about the direction of culture, when we know full well the culture can’t be changed except by what remains invisible to debates about the coercive measures used to constrain it

to be asked to believe that it matters so much where the nations of this world bury their dead before it burns….

note the “hastening” in that last. how odd to be thought odd for that!

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic’s pride,
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas’ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall:
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl’d;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
(Pope, Essay on Man)