“Violent antipathies are always suspicious and betray a secret affinity.”
-William Hazlitt
Who Are You Trying To Convince? is the latest episode of Proverbial and is available now.
A Simple Difference
The modern parent believes that the best way to teach a child responsibility is to give the child a number of costly gifts and tell the child not to ruin or break the gifts.
The classical parent believes the best way to teach responsibility is to require a child to perform tasks that are productive and not particularly pleasant.
Inevitable
If you don’t have a police, you must have some organized group of people who keep a police from forming, and the people who keep a police from forming are the police.
Teaching The Comedy
When teaching the Comedy, it is often the same student who claims that “all sin is the same in God’s eyes” that also most heartily objects to Dante’s insinuation that gluttony is worse than lust.
Self-Portrait In A Very Old Mirror At The Met
Going Max Fischer
I will say this about Do Not Allow Virtual Learning To Steal Our Snow Days, my latest for Circe: I don’t want to be a celebrity, but I am definitely shooting for “folk hero.”
Children Should Be Seen, Not Heard
And everybody is somebody’s child.
Episode 49 of Proverbial is available now.
An Actual Conversation
Gibbs: How are you?
Kroger cashier: I can’t complain.
Gibbs: You could complain, but you don’t. That’s a virtue.
Kroger cashier: Ooh, I like that.
Real Psychological Wisdom
My favorite single line of dialogue from any motion picture, a line I repeat often to myself as a sort of consolation, comes from Tom Alfredson’s 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and it is, “The fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.”
While the line is original, I was reading the proverbs of William Hazlitt this morning (who is English, like John le Carré) and I came across, “Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.”
After Denis Villeneuve, Christian Petzold Is The Most Exciting Filmmaker Alive
Phoenix (2014) is about marriage, plain and simple.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 