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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
How Wokeists are Working to Destroy the Family
We all sense our absolute singularity, but who can be counted upon to comprehend our uniqueness from the very start? Mother, father and closest relatives—the family. Even our naming at birth, maintains Noelle Mering in Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology (2021), “contains a whisper of intimacy and irreplaceability—the child is not just anyone, she is particular”. The authority of the family, then, is the genesis of our deepest and most enduring personhood. Not surprising, therefore, that latter-day progressives or wokists, bent on collectivising the individual, should view the traditional family with such enmity. The destruction of the authority of the family, argues Mering, is the great goal of the wokeist insurrection. But as she adds: “The plot has been largely successful but does not have the last word.”
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