Author Archives: Lotar
Beam
I guess I let the blog atrophy a bit. Again. Posting will likely be sparse for a little while. At least until after my next camping trip, in early June.
Filed under Music
American Exceptionalism
For a philosopher, ethnic roots, national identity, and so on, are simply not a category of truth-or, to put it in precise Kantian terms, when we reflect upon our ethnic roots, we engage in a private use of reason, constrained … Continue reading
Come to Us
My brief tribute to all Hyperdox Herman and all the Cultydox out there. I think it could have been good, had I the will to spend some time on it. I thought this remix of Tellier’s Cochon Ville fit the … Continue reading
Arab Spring
We long for a civil state that makes a complete distinction between temporal and religious authority, even as we hope when the ballot boxes show a majority with a religious-political character, for a discourse from this majority that is in … Continue reading
Clarifications
A few notes to clarify some questions about my previous post, made on another blog: The Capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois state, work to destroy “the old and the small,” (ie, homogenize cultures and languages, wiping out languages … Continue reading
Filed under Culture
Utopias, Shigalyovs, Lotharios and Suffering
I think I am coming to terms with the fact that I may be destined to be both naturally conservative, or traditional, or likely, a nostalgist, and yet a Socialist. I love the small things, the old songs, the old … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Religion, Small Things
Harrowing
Moreover, Death fell down to the feet of Christ, and Christ carried him away, and the Devil who had been a rebel became a captive. Christ made Amente to quake and the power of the Devil he turned backwards. Death … Continue reading
Filed under Religion
