Orwellian Trajectory

Have we actually come this far on the Orwellian trajectory to totalitarian thought? Check out this story of an NYU professor who is being prosecuted for his course seeking to intellectually arm his students against propaganda. Have we suddenly exchanged places with the Soviet Union? Has the CIA become the KGB?

The Beauty of White Granite

Across the street from me they are putting in a granite stone front to their house. The beauty of the white stone as it is being set side by side in level rows is something that impressed me with the thankful thought that we have such beauty, even in white rock. Not only is there beauty in this world but there is the fact that we can recognize this beauty. Isn't that something to be thankful for? And who can we thank in a world where the Artist has been exiled? Shall we not invite him back?

Comment on C.S.Lewis Quote on Reality

"We have to take reality as it comes to us: there is no good jabbering about what it ought to be like or what we should have expected it to be like." C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity This seems to say it so well (leave it to Lewis) particularly in the context of today's culture. It does seem like reality is taking a backseat to anarchic ideologies. May we one day have the collective courage to be the boy in "The Emperor's New Clothes" who is brave enough to proclaim contra to the popular opinion of the settled science of the day that indeed the emperor has been fooled and his entire kingdom has been bullied into the deception by the deceiving taylors.