modernity
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“We are living in a particular phase of history: freedom itself is bringing forth compulsion and constraint. The freedom of Can generates even more coercion than the disciplinarian Should, which issues commandments and prohibitions. Should has a limit. In contrast, Can has none. Thus, the compulsion entailed by Can is unlimited. And so, we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation. Technically, freedom means the
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Not with a bang, but with a malnourished whimper, will the new vita moderni perish. It will not be slain by fundamentalist revolutionaries or by the new breed of Chestertonian man, but rather, it will starve. Louise Perry wrote a fabulous article quite recently entitled “Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button.” She says this: “Put bluntly: The people
Mystic Revolution 