{"id":7470,"date":"2024-06-28T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T00:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2024-06-28T17:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T00:46:50","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-459","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/06\/28\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-459","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 459"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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><br><br>    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. 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the 459th instal\u00adla\u00adtion, a num\u00adber I find inter\u00adest\u00ading sim\u00adply because 4 + 5 = 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I should prob\u00ada\u00adbly men\u00adtion that I\u2019m not shar\u00ading any arti\u00adcles about last night\u2019s pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial debate today because I want to wait and see how peo\u00adple are think\u00ading about the race after a few days.  The reac\u00adtions right now are too raw.<\/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 href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4ada5df5-cbea-40c2-83d3-fd6b8e91a806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A slap in the face for psy\u00adchob\u00ada\u00adb\u00adble<\/a> (Janan Ganesh, Finan\u00adcial Times): \u201cI can\u2019t be the only for\u00adeign\u00ader in the US who has been chid\u00aded for not hav\u00ading a ther\u00ada\u00adpist by some\u00adone who \u2014 choos\u00ading my words care\u00adful\u00adly here \u2014 seems to be get\u00adting uneven results from theirs. If psy\u00adchob\u00ada\u00adb\u00adble were con\u00adfined to actors going up to col\u00adlect their big cer\u00adtifi\u00adcates, I\u2019d leave it alone. But, like sand, it gets every\u00adwhere.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Old\u00ader but gold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2024\/0624\/New-York-conservative-avant-garde-counterculture-religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rebels with a reli\u00adgious cause: Meet New York\u2019s avant-garde con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives<\/a> (Leonar\u00addo Bevilac\u00adqua, Chris\u00adt\u00adian Sci\u00adence Mon\u00adi\u00adtor): \u201cOrig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly from Philadel\u00adphia, Salom\u00e9 has been a devout Catholic since she was young. She wears a \u2018Make Amer\u00adi\u00adca Great Again\u2019 hat around town some\u00adtimes as an act of iron\u00adic defi\u00adance. And even though she\u2019s a trans\u00adgen\u00adder woman, she prefers the term of an ear\u00adli\u00ader age: cas\u00adtra\u00adto.&nbsp; But first and fore\u00admost, she says, she\u2019s a child of God.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Inter\u00adest\u00ading and full of sur\u00adpris\u00ades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zinnia01.substack.com\/p\/a-partial-explanation-of-zoomer-girl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Par\u00adtial Expla\u00adna\u00adtion of Zoomer Girl Derange\u00adment<\/a> (Zin\u00adnia, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cWhy are young women today so deranged? Because no one is hon\u00adest with them and they can\u00adnot be hon\u00adest with them\u00adselves. Par\u00adents lie to you, teach\u00aders lie to you, friends lie to you, every\u00adone lies to you. If any\u00adone dares tell you the truth, they are ostra\u00adcized. My teenage self could only find truth smug\u00adgled away in the dark recess\u00ades of obscure online com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties; usu\u00adal\u00adly couched in lay\u00aders of iron\u00adic (and sin\u00adcere) big\u00adotry. And while I did not enjoy the big\u00adotry (at the time), I found val\u00adue in engag\u00ading with the trans\u00adgres\u00adsive mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal I came across because I felt that it expressed truths oth\u00ader\u00adwise unavail\u00adable to me. Today, truth lies with\u00adin the domain of inter\u00adnet ghet\u00adtos, siloed away from the rest of polite soci\u00adety. At best, what soci\u00adety tells you is entire\u00adly unhelp\u00adful: \u2018You\u2019re beau\u00adti\u00adful just the way you are.\u2019 At worst, what soci\u00adety tells you is entire\u00adly destruc\u00adtive: \u2018If you feel alien\u00adat\u00aded by your body, you should maybe con\u00adsid\u00ader a mas\u00adtec\u00adto\u00admy.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A bit vul\u00adgar in places, but inter\u00adest\u00ading. Kin\u00adda long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slowboring.com\/p\/elite-misinformation-is-an-underrated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elite mis\u00adin\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion is an under\u00adrat\u00aded prob\u00adlem<\/a> (Matt Ygle\u00adsias, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c\u2026all this slop\u00adpy work and mis\u00adlead\u00ading rhetoric is both more impact\u00adful than a lot of peo\u00adple real\u00adize, and also a lot less tac\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly savvy than those doing it think. The prob\u00adlem is that it\u2019s about a mil\u00adlion times eas\u00adi\u00ader to per\u00adsuade a high\u00adly engaged mem\u00adber of your team of some\u00adthing than it is to per\u00adsuade a swing vot\u00ader (who is prob\u00ada\u00adbly skep\u00adti\u00adcal, cyn\u00adi\u00adcal, and not that engaged with pol\u00adi\u00adtics) or a mem\u00adber of the oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion (who instinc\u00adtive\u00adly assumes you\u2019re lying about every\u00adthing). So when you put some\u00adthing out there that\u2019s false or mis\u00adlead\u00ading, you\u2019re about a mil\u00adlion times more like\u00adly to con\u00adfuse peo\u00adple who are friend\u00adly to your cause than to actu\u00adal\u00adly per\u00adsuade any\u00adone worth per\u00adsuad\u00ading.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/article\/it-is-time-for-radical-candor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It Is Time for Rad\u00adi\u00adcal Can\u00addor<\/a> (Kevin D. Williamson, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cIt\u2019s anoth\u00ader lit\u00adtle Bat\u00adtle of Stal\u00adin\u00adgrad: It\u2019s a pity some\u00adbody has to win; all a decent per\u00adson can do is pray for casu\u00adal\u00adties.\u2026 Because we are gov\u00aderned by imbe\u00adciles and thieves and mis\u00adcre\u00adants and degen\u00ader\u00adates and peo\u00adple who are will\u00ading to put up with all that imbe\u00adcil\u00adi\u00adty and thiev\u00adery and mis\u00adcre\u00adance and degen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adcy if it gets them even such a pathet\u00adic prize as a tem\u00adpo\u00adrary seat in the U.S. House of Rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtives\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/how-and-how-not-to-wait\/\">How (and How Not) to Wait<\/a> (Mark<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/authors\/mark-vroegop\/\"> <\/a>Vroe\u00adgop, Cross\u00adway): \u201cFocus. Adore. Seek. Trust. That\u2019s how you wait on the Lord. It\u2019s how you live on what\u2019s true about God when you don\u2019t know what\u2019s true about your life.\u2026 Rather than allow\u00ading strong emo\u00adtions to hold you hostage, you can embrace a strat\u00ade\u00adgy (FAST) that wel\u00adcomes God\u2019s grace into your uncer\u00adtain\u00adty.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I feel awk\u00adward shar\u00ading this, but I was inter\u00adviewed for a pod\u00adcast. I did not choose the title (nor even the top\u00adic): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fjiPVhAOFCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why I am NOT a Calvin\u00adist: Break\u00ading Down Every\u00adthing from Calvin\u00adism, to Can We Lose Our Sal\u00adva\u00adtion<\/a> (King\u00addom Come Pod\u00adcast, YouTube): one hour long.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Interested Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tastingtable.com\/1602582\/roast-glazed-donuts-campfire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ditch The S\u2019mores And Roast Glazed Donuts At Your Next Camp\u00adfire<\/a> (Julia Hol\u00adland, Tast\u00ading Table): \u201cJust as a hot fire will caramelize the sug\u00adars and cre\u00adate a bub\u00adbly, crunchy, scorched crust on marsh\u00admal\u00adlows, the fire will have sim\u00adi\u00adlar trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive pow\u00aders on sug\u00adary donut glaze. The heat will effec\u00adtive\u00adly br\u00fbl\u00e9e the glaze, caus\u00ading it to hard\u00aden and incur tiny scorched bub\u00adbles depend\u00ading on how long you hold it over the fire. The one dimen\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly sweet fla\u00advor of a plain glazed donut will take on rich\u00ader caramelized and burnt sug\u00adar notes too.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I had nev\u00ader con\u00adsid\u00adered this but as soon as I saw the head\u00adline became eager to try it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/calm-down-your-phone-isnt-listening-to-your-conversations-its-just-tracking-everything-you-type-every-app-you-use-every-website-you-visit-and-everywhere-you-go-in-the-physical-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Calm Down\u2014Your Phone Isn\u2019t Lis\u00adten\u00ading to Your Con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions. It\u2019s Just Track\u00ading Every\u00adthing You Type, Every App You Use, Every Web\u00adsite You Vis\u00adit, and Every\u00adwhere You Go in the Phys\u00adi\u00adcal World<\/a> (McSweeney\u2019s Inter\u00adnet Ten\u00adden\u00adcy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded 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 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. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way. This is the 459th instal\u00adla\u00adtion, a num\u00adber I find inter\u00adest\u00ading sim\u00adply because 4 + 5 = 9. I \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/06\/28\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-459\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 459\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[160,177,336,183,162],"class_list":["post-7470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-media","tag-new-york","tag-psychology","tag-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Wu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470","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=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7473,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions\/7473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}