Luctor et Emergo

Category: Zombies

  • Culture of Narcissism

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    Tony Dalmyn
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    Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations was a best-seller when it was first published in 1979, and it stands as one of the most distinctive works of social criticism and commentary of the last three decades. Lasch used the term narcissism, a psychological term based on a…

  • Shakespeare’s Doctor

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    Theodore Dalrymple has published a few couple interesting essays in City Journal over the last interval. For soccer fans, especially Manchester United fans, Strange Hero-Worship, a slap at the mass grief over the death of soccer genius, playboy (alcoholic, promiscuous, and violent) and celebrity, George Best. This one goes into the strange mass grief demonstrated…

  • Eco’s Christmas letter

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    Tony Dalmyn
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    The Telegraph published a essay by Umberto Eco – God isn’t Big Enough for Some People. It starts with the observation that the Christmas holiday is a mystery in a secular society. If the holiday has significance outside of the Christian religion, what are we celebrating? This leads to a meditation on religion, science, ideology,…

  • Newsworthy

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    The story of the fatal shooting on Sargent Avenue on October 10, 2005 was presented in the media intensely over a short time, and then persistently for several weeks. I summarized the coverage in my entry Unlucky. There are a few things to be said about perspective. The media are trying to meet the needs…

  • Unlucky

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    Tony Dalmyn
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    If you live in Winnipeg, you will know this story, which was in the headlines for several consecutive days, and in the headlines repeatedly over the following weeks as civic authorities announced new initiatives in the war on crime. I was distressed by the story, because it involves the death of a young man –…

  • Kidocracy

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    In the local newspapers in Winnipeg, we have had a run of stories in the last few years about whether schools are doing enough to prevent bullying (I’m putting a caveat on that link. The Wikipedia entry summarizes the theories about bullying but it doesn’t evaluate them, and it tends to dramatize the problem –…

  • Bees

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    Tony Dalmyn
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    Another reflection on the culture wars. In the Times of London, William Rees-Mogg comments, in A pope for our times: why Darwin is back on the agenda at the Vatican, on how the Catholic Church seems to be accepting scientific Darwinism. I have to say “seems” because the process is slow and tentative.

  • Respect

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    Deborah Hope riffs on the many meanings of Respect in the Australian. She’s right. It has become a flexible word, prominent in the vocabulary of relativism. All beliefs are entitled to respect (but especially mine …) She might also have said that the discourse of respect is usually self-centred and blaming. Feeling disrespected is a…

  • Prime

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    Tony Dalmyn
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    This is partly about the movie Prime, and partly about other things like depression, unhappiness, therapy, and young men dating older women. Prime has been treating with surprising kindness by many critics, but the mean score at the Metacritics site was 58. Ebert liked it because it had some good scenes and tried to say…

  • November 7, 2005

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    Wikipedia’s start page has a daily featured article, an entry selected as the article of the day. For football fans, on November 7, 2005 the featured article is about the Arsenal Football Club which plays in the FA Premier League in England. The French urban riots made the front page of the Free Press today…