{"id":7311,"date":"2023-11-03T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2023-11-03T21:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T04:34:36","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/11\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-427","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 427"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>     On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>427 feels kinda prime-ish, but it\u2019s not. 427 = 61*7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/gender-affirming-care-dangerous-finland-doctor?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.\u2019<\/a> (Riittakerttu Kaltiala, The Free Press): \u201cSoon after our hospital began offering hormonal interventions for these patients, we began to see that the miracle we had been promised was not happening. What we were seeing was just the opposite. The young people we were treating were not thriving. Instead, their lives were deteriorating. We thought, <em>what is this?<\/em> Because there wasn\u2019t a hint in studies that this could happen.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More Israel\/Gaza perspectives:&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/10\/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false\/675799\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False<\/a> (Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic): \u201cThe decolonization narrative\u2026 holds that Israel is an \u2018imperialist-colonialist\u2019 force, that Israelis are \u2018settler-colonialists,\u2019 and that Palestinians have a right to eliminate their oppressors. (On October 7, we all learned what that meant.) It casts Israelis as \u2018white\u2019 or \u2018white-adjacent\u2019 and Palestinians as \u2018people of color.\u2019 This ideology, powerful in the academy but long overdue for serious challenge, is a toxic, historically nonsensical mix of Marxist theory, Soviet propaganda, and traditional anti-Semitism from the Middle Ages and the 19th century. But its current engine is the new identity analysis, which sees history through a concept of race that derives from the American experience.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Long but good. The author, who is Jewish, is well-known for his history books (perhaps the best way to describe him is as a non-academic historian).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2023\/11\/02\/whose-genocide-is-it-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whose Genocide Is It Anyway?<\/a> (Zachary R. Goldsmith, Quillette): \u201cSince the year 2000, the population of Gaza has nearly doubled; it boasts the 39th highest birthrate among the world\u2019s countries, and the average life expectancy is nearly 76 years of age (the average life expectancy in the US is just over 77 years of age). If Israel is intent on committing genocide in Gaza, it is doing a very poor job.\u2026 Since the Middle Ages, Jews have been accused of murdering children and using their blood for ritual purposes. This blood libel lives on today in a new form, as the Jews of the state of Israel are accused of purposefully killing children in a campaign of genocide.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wisdomofcrowds.live\/p\/the-revolutionary-legitimacy-of-hamas\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas\u2019 Bid for Revolutionary Legitimacy<\/a> (Damir Marusic, Substack): \u201c\u2026for revolutionary movements, violence is a political act. Like any number of revolutionary movements, Hamas knew exactly what it was doing. But in my initial read of its cynical calculation, I didn\u2019t give them their due. They weren\u2019t merely trying to torpedo a deal that could be their undoing. They were making a bid for full political legitimacy among Palestinians.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is an editor at the Washington Post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/stop-helping-hamas-win-its-disinformation-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stop helping Hamas win its disinformation war<\/a> (Sam Wineburg, Times of Israel): \u201cAlong with my colleagues at Stanford University, I have spent the last seven years studying how people learn to make better decisions about what to believe online.\u2026 Here are four guidelines for seeing through the fog and staying sane in the midst of this current information war.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is an emeritus professor of education at Stanford.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/dagestan-airport-antisemitic-mob-jews\" target=\"_blank\">What Happens When There Aren\u2019t Enough Jews to Lynch<\/a>? (Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, The Free Press): \u201c\u2026a flight from Tel Aviv was landing on Sunday evening at the airport in the city of Makhachkala. Hundreds of people stormed the airport to greet that flight\u2014of 45 passengers, 15 were Israeli, many of them children. \u2018Allahu Akbar,\u2019 they shout in videos that have emerged online, some men waving Palestinian flags. On the tarmac, they attack an airport employee, who desperately explains: \u2018There are no passengers here anymore,\u2019 and then exclaims, \u2018I am Muslim!\u2019 Some of the rioters demanded to examine the passports of arriving passengers, seemingly trying to identify those who were Israeli, and others searched cars as they were leaving. Another video emerged of two young boys at the airport, proudly declaring that they came to \u2018kill Jews\u2019 with knives.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Antisemitism is surging globally and it is terrifying to&nbsp;watch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/01\/opinion\/israel-hamas-gaza-war-politics.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Israel-Hamas War Will Reshape Western Politics<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cThese [decades-old American] groupings still exist \u2014 evangelicals are still very pro-Israel, the Democratic president is a Zionist liberal, the progressive movement is pro-Palestinian \u2014 but in the current crisis you can see a more complex alignment taking shape, with implications that extend beyond the Israeli-Palestinian question alone.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolicy.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/26\/just_the_facts_on_geofencing_988747.html\" target=\"_blank\">Just the Facts on \u2018Geofencing\u2019<\/a> (Maggie MacFarland Phillips, Real Clear Policy): \u201cData brokers, including SafeGraph, insist that their information is anonymized. But it is precisely the lack of specificity that worries critics. \u2018There\u2019s no particular individual who the government is suspicious of,\u2019 Adam Schwartz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told RealClearInvestigations. \u2018It\u2019s a dragnet.\u2019 Moreover, there is no guarantee that the data collected through geofencing stays anonymous. \u2018It is often very easy to take supposedly de-identified data and re-identify a person,\u2019 said Schwartz, \u2018And it\u2019s very, very easy to do that with location data.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalliturgies.net\/p\/movies-moral-revulsion-and-a-post?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Movies, Moral Revulsion, and a Post-Christian Age<\/a> (Samuel D. James, Substack): \u201cIt seems to me that the idea that you can elicit moral revulsion merely by depicting evil assumes two things. First, it assumes that the realm of the visual can be manipulated to bypass titillation and proceed straight to condemnation. Second, it assumes an audience who possess a moral imagination that would both motivate and equip them to do this. The first assumption could be false. The second assumption absolutely is. Secular society, aided by the liturgical effect of the Internet and the pornographic nature of the Web, has long been feeding itself on images of the morally outrageous.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Christians were famously hostile towards mass entertainment a few decades ago. The next generation of evangelicals rebelled against that and too often became uncritically accepting of all forms of entertainment. We need to get to place of rejecting what needs to be rejected and allowing freedom otherwise. There are shows you should not watch and songs you should not jam out to. And you should be willing to tell people why, \u201cYeah, I didn\u2019t watch Game of Thrones once I realized how pornographic it was.\u201d Or in a paper about a film you had to watch for a class, \u201cThe director made a mistake including [whatever it is]: it doesn\u2019t advance the plot or enhance the theme. It actually undermines the purpose of the work and seems to have been included mostly to appeal to a certain intellectual demographic, thereby making the film\u2019s message needlessly inaccessible to those not already predisposed to agree with&nbsp;it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk\" target=\"_blank\">Washington\u2019s Dream<\/a> (Saturday Night Live, YouTube): a stirring, stunning meditation on systems of measurement&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/autocomplete-2\" target=\"_blank\">Autocomplete<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2023\/10\/31\" target=\"_blank\">Notifications<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we&nbsp;have<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way. 427 feels kinda prime-ish, but it\u2019s not. 427 = 61*7. Things Glen Found Interesting Less Serious Things Which Also \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/11\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 427\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Today's roundup is briefer than usual, with the biggest chunk of articles being related to the Israel\/Hamas war.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[148,113,177],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-israel","tag-lgbtq","tag-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1TV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7314,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions\/7314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}