{"id":7348,"date":"2024-01-05T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T03:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2024-01-05T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T03:02:57","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/01\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-434","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 434"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> On (most) Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. I skipped last week due to the hol\u00adi\u00addays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is vol\u00adume 434, a num\u00adber which is a palin\u00addrome. It is also the sum of con\u00adsec\u00adu\u00adtive primes: 434 = 61 + 67 + 71 + 73 + 79 + 83<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Our God\u00adless era is dead<\/a> (Paul Kingsnorth, UnHerd): \u201cI grew up believ\u00ading in things which I now look on very dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly. To put career before fam\u00adi\u00adly. To accu\u00admu\u00adlate wealth as a mark\u00ader of sta\u00adtus. To treat sex as recre\u00adation. To reflex\u00adive\u00adly mock author\u00adi\u00adty and tra\u00addi\u00adtion. To put indi\u00advid\u00adual desire before com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. To treat the world as so much dead mat\u00adter to be inter\u00adro\u00adgat\u00aded by the sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic process. To assume our ances\u00adtors were thick\u00ader than us. I did all of this, or tried to, for years. Most of us did, I sup\u00adpose. Per\u00adhaps above all, and per\u00adhaps at the root of all, there was one teach\u00ading that per\u00adme\u00adat\u00aded every\u00adthing. It was to treat reli\u00adgion as some\u00adthing both prim\u00adi\u00adtive and obso\u00adlete. Sim\u00adply a bunch of fairy sto\u00adries invent\u00aded by the igno\u00adrant. Sim\u00adply a mech\u00ada\u00adnism of social con\u00adtrol. Noth\u00ading to do with us, here, now, in our very mod\u00adern, sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly lib\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded, choose-your-own-adven\u00adture world.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Part of a Chris\u00adtian\u2019s Job is to Point Out that Mod\u00adern Life Stinks<\/a> (Samue D. James, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cPart of the evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal wit\u00adness right now should be to point out that mod\u00adern life stinks. Its tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy makes us lone\u00adly. Its sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty makes us emp\u00adty. Its psy\u00adchother\u00ada\u00adpy makes us self-obsessed. Many peo\u00adple are on the brink of obliv\u00adion, held back in some cas\u00ades only by med\u00adica\u00adtion or polit\u00adi\u00adcal iden\u00adti\u00adty. We strug\u00adgle to artic\u00adu\u00adlate why we should con\u00adtin\u00adue to live. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals should jump in here.\u201d\n