The Heat Pump Enthusiast

How is reverse chronological going?

The Hymnal (1940) exists, what more could people want?

Dealing with an elderly family member who has lost the ability to drive and boy would more of that be useful

Yea I’m listening to Democracy in America rn, and while some of it still applies…some of it is incredibly foreign to our contemporary system

The President, who exercises a limited power, may err without causing great mischief in the State. Congress may decide amiss without destroying the Union, because the electoral body in which Congress originates may cause it to retract its decision by changing its members. But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.

Democracy in America, Ch 8

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Whoa, as a Catholic 63% in formation sounds crazy

The contrast between the Anglo-liberal tradition of moving out of the state of nature by subduing the desire for prestige to material needs and the Hegelian inverse is quite interesting

I mean the Civil War is about quest for recognition on just about every level, even on the Lincoln’s quest for greatness

Still reading THE END OF HISTORY, on to the meat about Hegel and the quest for recognition. Just free associating but makes me think of Lincoln’s quote: “I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”

God gave us mediating institutions and the Church because He knew us too well

The old adage that “Humans are religious animals”, definitely seems to have a wisdom

I’m far from thinking that the current governance model is the end all be all, but isn’t this largely downstream of ELCC reform? Are they going to try to undo that? Seems like as usual, the answer is longer term hedging for retail consumers, which is a state level regulatory issue

I think I would have used quotes but treating it as just like a noun clause I guess works

How would you punctuate this sentence? This is how it appears: “To Kant’s question, Is it possible to write a Universal History from a cosmopolitan point of view? our provisional answer is yes.”

“An American industrial policy is much less likely to improve its economic competitiveness, precisely because America is more democratic than Taiwan or the Asian Newly Industrialized Economies. The planning process would quickly fall prey to pressures from Congress …”

ery through democratic means. Long after the abolition of slav-ery, long, indeed after the achievement of full legal equality by American blacks, many remain profoundly alienated from the mainstream of American culture. Given the profoundly cultural nature of the problem, on the side both of blacks and whites, it is not clear that American democracy is really capable of doing what would be necessary to assimilate blacks fully, and to move from formal equality of opportunity to a broader equality of condition.

Hmmm

Shoulda proofread that lol

“But there are other kinds of non-economic conflicts that are far more intractable, having to do with issues like inherited social status and nationality, that democracy is not particularly good at resolving.” p 117

Reading through THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN finally

“Urban professionals in developed countries, on the other hand, can be recruited to a lot of nutty causes like liquid diets and marathon running, but they tend not to volunteer for private armies or death squats simply bra cause someone in a uniform tells them to do so.” -Francis Fukayama

Dealing with some elderly relatives with health issues rn and I can’t imagine experiencing aging without family and community

casablanca, chinatown, and citizen kane are the movies where you’re just tired of hearing about them and then you sit down and watch them and say oh, yeah, no, these are good movies. like wow.

What would the population of the Northeast be without zoning? There are many cases where the supply shortage has created huge changes in American economic behavior but we tend to have a strong bias for behavioral explanations.

How much of the South's population boom was fueled by housing displacing poor families out of the Northeast?

What would the population of the Northeast be without zoning?
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for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

such an incredible book

“They knew the process of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.” - A. Lincoln “Speech on Dred Scott Decision

“Its authors meant it to be, thank God, it is now proving itself, a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn free people back into the hateful paths of despotism.

“The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain; and it was placed in the Declaration, not for that, but for future use.

You’re living the dream, I have to co-optimize my interior decor with the Mrs, so there are many fewer maps around than I’d want. At the office, however, I should definitely throw some more up