The Nazi leader who described the National Socialist revolution as a counter-Renaissance spoke more truly than he probably knew. It was a decisive step in the destruction of that civilization which modern man had built up from the age of the Renaissance….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u2014F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n J Greely<\/a>:<\/p>\n … for all the (mostly true) complaints about how horribly misogynist the Gor novels were, the core audience was female. The local bookstore clerks who more-or-less adopted me in the late Seventies often laughed about how women would come up to the counter with a Gor novel artfully concealed in the middle of their purchases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I tried reading one of Norman’s novels once but gave up half-way through. He didn’t like women and had no understanding of them. Or so I thought \u2014 apparently he understood some well enough.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Greely found a little game<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cList 5 famous people you\u2019ve either met or have been within a few feet of, but ONE is a lie. Then let your friends guess which one they think is a lie.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let’s play.<\/p>\n 1. Wendy Whelan<\/p>\n 2. Phil Keaggy<\/p>\n 3. William F. Buckley, Jr.<\/p>\n 4. R.A. Lafferty<\/p>\n 5. James Lee Burke<\/p>\n (Don’t recognize all the names? All are legendary in their fields, though those fields might be ballet or music, rather than sports or television.)<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Today’s useful term: “counter-Renaissance.” E.g., The Nazi leader who described the National Socialist revolution as a counter-Renaissance spoke more truly than he probably knew. It was a decisive step in the destruction of that civilization which modern man had built up from the age of the Renaissance…. \u2014F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom. *** J … Continue reading “Odds and ends, mostly odd”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-whatever","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-otv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94085"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94131,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94085\/revisions\/94131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/captcha-640x172.jpg\")
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