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Here’s a picture of a chicken on a bicycle. Enjoy navigating types of eggs in your local Trader Joe’s soon. (Taken with instagram)
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Robert Frank
U.S. 285, New Mexico, 1955
Frank asked Jack Kerouac to write the introduction to The Americans. Of this photograph, Kerouac wrote: “Long shot of night road arrowing forlorn into immensities and flat of impossible-to-believe America in New Mexico under the prisoner’s moon.”
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U.S. 285, New Mexico, 1955
Frank asked Jack Kerouac to write the introduction to The Americans. Of this photograph, Kerouac wrote: “Long shot of night road arrowing forlorn into immensities and flat of impossible-to-believe America in New Mexico under the prisoner’s moon.”
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“If there are no good humanistic reasons for believing in human rights, then there are no good humanistic reasons for believing in Christianity in order to believe in human rights either. And therefore there are no good humanistic reasons for believing in Christianity.” —
What Has Christianity To Do With Human Rights? | The American Conservative
I’m getting caught up, via Noah’s post, with the exchange between Ross Douthat and Julian Sanchez. I think Noah’s absolutely right here, and I wince sympathetically on Ross’s behalf.
He continues:
If these beliefs – belief in human rights, and belief that God redeemed the world from sin by incarnating Himself as a human being and allowing Himself to be crucified – both require leaps of faith, then what is the ground for deeming one more persuasive than the other? Presumably, the ground is something other than reason – it’s aesthetic, or psychological, or something. Among other things, the latter belief, being a myth, tells a story. But the point isn’t that without Christian premises you can’t believe in human rights – because those premises are just as ungrounded as direct belief in human rights. It’s that believing in random premises is less convincing to people than believing in myths, in stories, because that’s how human psychology works.
This is what made Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse so great. It was a relentless, uncompromising argument against transhumanism that gave only the slightest ground to some genuinely sympathetic utilitarian entreaties. Even if the transhuman dream sounds liberating, it will end in exploitation, torture, and, of course, hordes of zombies scavenging for human flesh across a blasted wasteland. The bioconservative mythos of Dollhouse completely bypassed liberal metaphysics and went straight to the construction of new taboos.
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Folklore Productions reports that Doc Watson has passed.
R.I.P.
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