{"id":5657,"date":"2019-08-30T20:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T04:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2019-08-30T20:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T04:56:39","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/08\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-216","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 216"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. No, real\u00adly. I mean them and they mat\u00adter. <\/strong>I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so if you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The Cops Who Abused Pho\u00adto\u00adshop<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): this is out\u00adra\u00adgeous. Dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to excerpt, but well worth read\u00ading. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>
  2. How Pornog\u00adra\u00adphy Makes Us Less Human and Less Humane<\/a> (Matthew Lee Ander\u00adson, The Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cBeneath pornog\u00adra\u00adphy is the sup\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion that the mere fact of our desire for a woman makes us wor\u00adthy of her. And so, not being bound by any kind of norm, desire must pro\u00adceed end\u00adless\u00adly. It is no sur\u00adprise that the indus\u00adtri\u00adal\u00adized, cheap-and-easy sex of pornog\u00adra\u00adphy has answered and evoked an almost unre\u00adstrained sex\u00adu\u00adal greed, which allows us to be gods and god\u00addess\u00ades with\u00adin the safe\u00adty of our own fan\u00adtasies. It is for deep and impor\u00adtant rea\u00adsons that the Ten Com\u00admand\u00adments use the eco\u00adnom\u00adic lan\u00adguage of \u2018cov\u00adet\u00ading\u2019 to describe the bad\u00adness of errant sex\u00adu\u00adal desires.\u201d Many insights in this essay.\n
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    1. Relat\u00aded: In the Face of Sex\u00adu\u00adal Temp\u00adta\u00adtion, Repres\u00adsion Is a Sure-Fire Fail\u00adure<\/a> (Rachel Gilson, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cRepres\u00adsion and avoid\u00adance are ulti\u00admate\u00adly human-cen\u00adtered respons\u00ades. They stuff desire, suf\u00adfo\u00adcate it, ban\u00adish it, and yet rarely suc\u00adceed at engen\u00adder\u00ading true puri\u00adty. By con\u00adtrast, Chris\u00adt\u00adian asceti\u00adcism reminds us that we are not<\/em> stronger than desire and then invites us to cast our gaze toward the One who is. It asks the Chris\u00adt\u00adian to fol\u00adlow the sight line of desire\u2014like look\u00ading down the bar\u00adrel of a gun\u2014and train it on what all desire is ulti\u00admate\u00adly sat\u00adis\u00adfied by: the glo\u00adry of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 4:6).\u201d<\/li>\n
    2. Relat\u00aded What Genet\u00adics Is Teach\u00ading Us About Sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Steven M. Phelps and Robbee Wedow, New York Times): \u201c\u2026genet\u00adic dif\u00adfer\u00adences account for rough\u00adly one-third of the vari\u00ada\u00adtion in same-sex behav\u00adior.\u201d The authors are pro\u00adfes\u00adsors (one of biol\u00ado\u00adgy at UT Austin and the oth\u00ader of soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy at Har\u00advard). They are also both gay men. They are reflect\u00ading on research pub\u00adlished in the jour\u00adnal Sci\u00adence: Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genet\u00adic archi\u00adtec\u00adture of same-sex sex\u00adu\u00adal behav\u00adior<\/a> (which Wedow coau\u00adthored).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>
    3. What Major\u00adi\u00adty-World Mis\u00adsions Real\u00adly Looks Like<\/a> (Dor\u00adcas Cheng-Tozun, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cIn 2015, 9 of the top 20 send\u00ading countries\u2014including Brazil, the Philip\u00adpines, Chi\u00adna, India, Nige\u00adria, and South Africa\u2014were in the major\u00adi\u00adty world (also referred to as the devel\u00adop\u00ading world), with a total of 101,000 inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies.\u201d For con\u00adtext, the com\u00adbined total is close to the num\u00adber sent from the USA.<\/li>
    4. Why do Chi\u00adnese peo\u00adple like their gov\u00adern\u00adment?<\/a> (Kaiser Kuo, SupChi\u00adna): \u201cIt\u2019s the rare per\u00adson who can tru\u00adly sep\u00ada\u00adrate, at both an intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal and an emo\u00adtion\u00adal lev\u00adel, crit\u00adi\u00adcism of his or her coun\u00adtry from crit\u00adi\u00adcism of his or her country\u2019s gov\u00adern\u00adment \u2014 espe\u00adcial\u00adly if that gov\u00adern\u00adment is not, at present, ter\u00adri\u00adbly embat\u00adtled and is deliv\u00ader\u00ading basic pub\u00adlic goods in a rea\u00adson\u00adably com\u00adpe\u00adtent man\u00adner.\u201d\n
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      1. Relat\u00aded: 9 ques\u00adtions about the Hong Kong protests you were too embar\u00adrassed to ask<\/a> (Jen Kir\u00adby, Vox): \u201c\u201dWhat began as a tar\u00adget\u00aded protest against a con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial extra\u00addi\u00adtion bill in June has trans\u00adformed into what feels like a bat\u00adtle for the future of Hong Kong. Pro\u00adtest\u00aders are not just fight\u00ading their local gov\u00adern\u00adment. They\u2019re chal\u00adleng\u00ading one of the most pow\u00ader\u00adful coun\u00adtries on earth: Chi\u00adna.<\/li>\n
      2. Relat\u00aded: Hong Kong Democ\u00adra\u00adcy Activists Arrest\u00aded Ahead Of Planned March<\/a> (Emi\u00adly Feng & Scott Neu\u00adman, NPR): \u201cJoshua Wong, Hong Kong\u2019s most famous pro-democ\u00adra\u00adcy leader, was arrest\u00aded on Fri\u00adday along with fel\u00adlow activists and politi\u00adcians in what appeared to be a coor\u00addi\u00adnat\u00aded sweep by the city\u2019s police ahead of a mass anti-gov\u00adern\u00adment march that had been planned for the week\u00adend.\u201d<\/li>\n
      3. Relat\u00aded: The One Unit\u00aded Strug\u00adgle For Free\u00addom<\/a> (David Brooks, New York Times): \u201cMany sus\u00adpect Amer\u00adi\u00adca will nev\u00ader step in to help. The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan right no longer believes in spread\u00ading democ\u00adra\u00adcy to for\u00adeign\u00aders. The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan left embraces a nation\u00adal nar\u00adra\u00adtive that empha\u00adsizes slav\u00adery and oppres\u00adsion, not that Amer\u00adi\u00adca is a bea\u00adcon or an exam\u00adple. Nei\u00adther par\u00adty any longer sees Amer\u00adi\u00adca as a van\u00adguard nation whose very mis\u00adsion is to advance uni\u00adver\u00adsal democ\u00adra\u00adcy and human dig\u00adni\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n
      4. Relat\u00aded: China\u2019s Spies Are On The Offen\u00adsive<\/a> (Mike Giglio, The Atlantic): \u201cEspi\u00adonage and coun\u00adteres\u00adpi\u00adonage have been essen\u00adtial tools of state\u00adcraft for cen\u00adturies, of course, and U.S. and Chi\u00adnese intel\u00adli\u00adgence agen\u00adcies have been bat\u00adtling one anoth\u00ader for decades. But what these recent cas\u00ades sug\u00adgest is that the intel\u00adli\u00adgence war is escalating\u2014that Chi\u00adna has increased both the scope and the sophis\u00adti\u00adca\u00adtion of its efforts to steal secrets from the U.S.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>
      5. Why Every\u00adthing They Say About The Ama\u00adzon, Includ\u00ading That It\u2019s The \u2018Lungs Of The World,\u2019 Is Wrong<\/a> (Michael Shel\u00adlen\u00adberg\u00ader, Forbes): \u201c\u2018What is hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the Ama\u00adzon is not excep\u00adtion\u00adal,\u2019 said Coutin\u00adho. \u2018Take a look at Google web search\u00ades search for \u2018Ama\u00adzon\u2019 and \u2018Ama\u00adzon For\u00adest\u2019 over time. Glob\u00adal pub\u00adlic opin\u00adion was not as inter\u00adest\u00aded in the \u2018Ama\u00adzon tragedy\u2019 when the sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion was unde\u00adni\u00adably worse. The present moment does not jus\u00adti\u00adfy glob\u00adal hys\u00adte\u00adria.\u2019 And while fires<\/em> in Brazil have increased, there is no evi\u00addence that Ama\u00adzon for\u00adest fires<\/em> have.\u201d I found this arti\u00adcle quite infor\u00adma\u00adtive.<\/li>
      6. The Trump Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion Sides With Nurs\u00ades Who Object to Abor\u00adtion<\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201cBeyond its out\u00adcome, this case is a sig\u00adnal of the Trump administration\u2019s pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adties: It sees reli\u00adgious free\u00addom and con\u00adscience pro\u00adtec\u00adtions as cen\u00adtral parts of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan civ\u00adil rights, and offi\u00adcials plan to enforce those laws.\u201d\n
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        1. Relat\u00aded: By their tweets you will know them: The Democ\u00adrats\u2019 con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading God gap<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Reli\u00adgion News Ser\u00advice): \u201cWhile the Nones have grown dra\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly over the last 20 years, it\u2019s still impor\u00adtant to real\u00adize that more than six in ten Amer\u00adi\u00adcans iden\u00adti\u00adfy as a Chris\u00adt\u00adian, accord\u00ading to the 2018 Coop\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtive Con\u00adgres\u00adsion\u00adal Elec\u00adtion Study. If Democ\u00adrats want to win back the White House, it would behoove them to reach out to those Chris\u00adt\u00adian vot\u00aders. How\u00adev\u00ader, at least on social media, Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic can\u00addi\u00addates fail to do so.\u201d<\/li>\n
        2. Relat\u00aded: Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Par\u00adty embraces non\u00adre\u00adli\u00adgious vot\u00aders, crit\u00adi\u00adcizes \u2018reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty\u2019 in new res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/a> (Caleb Parke, Fox News): \u201cThe Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Nation\u00adal Com\u00admit\u00adtee (DNC) passed a res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion Sat\u00adur\u00adday prais\u00ading the val\u00adues of \u2018reli\u00adgious\u00adly unaf\u00adfil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded\u2019 Amer\u00adi\u00adcans as the \u2018largest reli\u00adgious group with\u00adin the Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Par\u00adty.\u2019 The res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion, which was unan\u00adi\u00admous\u00adly passed at the DNC\u2019s sum\u00admer meet\u00ading on Aug. 24 in San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco, Calif., was cham\u00adpi\u00adoned by the Sec\u00adu\u00adlar Coali\u00adtion of Amer\u00adi\u00adca, an orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion that lob\u00adbies on behalf of athe\u00adists, agnos\u00adtics, and human\u00adists on pub\u00adlic pol\u00adi\u00adcy.\u201d<\/li>\n
        3. Relat\u00aded: Michael Wear\u2019s com\u00admen\u00adtary on Twit\u00adter: \u201cI just want to be clear. This is both polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly stu\u00adpid, but also, just stu\u00adpid on a fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal lev\u00adel that tran\u00adscends elec\u00adtoral pol\u00adi\u00adtics.\u201d<\/a> (Wear was an Oba\u00adma staffer)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>
        4. Let\u2019s have open bor\u00adders for peo\u00adple and closed bor\u00adders for cap\u00adi\u00adtal<\/a> (Jeff Spross, The Week): \u201c\u2026human beings aren\u2019t the only things that cross bor\u00adders: goods, ser\u00advices, and finan\u00adcial cap\u00adi\u00adtal do it all the time as well. A bet\u00adter response to Trump might not be to debate whether bor\u00adders should be enforced, but rather enforced against what? <\/em>Specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, the left-pro\u00adgres\u00adsive posi\u00adtion on bor\u00adders should be some\u00adthing like: max\u00adi\u00admum enforce\u00adment against the move\u00adment of finan\u00adcial cap\u00adi\u00adtal, mod\u00ader\u00adate enforce\u00adment against goods and ser\u00advices, and min\u00adi\u00admal enforce\u00adment against peo\u00adple.\u201d\n
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          1. Relat\u00aded: Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and Cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adism Recon\u00adsid\u00adered<\/a> (Alan Jacobs, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c[the claim] that cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adism makes us wealth\u00adi\u00ader, lets us live longer, and improves our ethics \u2014 could be right and even so<\/em> Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adism might not be com\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adble. Maybe God doesn\u2019t want us to be rich\u00ader and longer-lived, and maybe there are cer\u00adtain mat\u00adters of faith\u00adful\u00adness that tran\u00adscend what most peo\u00adple call \u2018ethics.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n