https://pinboard.in/u:keithly/public/ recent bookmarks from keithly 2020-05-06T12:48:03+00:00 https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon keithly economics protest labor amazon programming via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:keithly/b:45f01170f015/ 2020-01-30T01:32:39+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/roger-scruton.html##Roger+was+the+leading+philosophical+defender+of+love+of+home+and+one%E2%80%99s+own%2C+what+he+called+%E2%80%9Coikophilia.%E2%80%9D+Of+course%2C+as+a+humanist+and+Christian+he+recognized+duties+to+all+of+humanity+%E2%80%94+even+duties+of+love+%28understood+as+being+less+about+feeling+than+about+willing%29%3A+All+are+brothers+and+sisters+under+the+fatherhood+of+God%2C+who+made+us+all+in+his+own+image.+But+Roger+also+held+that+one+naturally+and+rightly+has+a+special+love+for%2C+and+duties+toward%2C+members+of+one%E2%80%99s+family%2C+tradition+of+faith%2C+local+community+and+region%2C+and+fellow+citizens.+Roger%E2%80%99s+oikophilia%2C+and+his+rejection+of+%E2%80%9Cmulticulturalism%E2%80%9D+%28which+he+considered+anti-cultural+in+that+it+melted+the+different+cultures+into+a+monoculture+of+contemporary+upscale+progressive+ideology%29%2C+provoked+ignorant+and+excitable+people+to+accuse+him+of+xenophobia+and+racism.+In+fact%2C+Roger+respected+other+cultures+a+great+deal+more+than+most+progressives+of+my+acquaintance+do.+He+learned+Arabic+in+order+to+read+the+Quran%2C+and+he+admired+the+tradition-transcending+contributions+of+the+great+medieval+Islamic+philosophers.+He+made+careful%2C+in-depth+studies+of+Hindu+and+other+Eastern+traditions+of+faith+precisely+in+search+of+the+wisdom+he+regarded+them+as+possessing. keithly philosophy conservative culture via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:keithly/b:35cfd70ddf23/ 2019-04-20T02:51:02+00:00 https://nypost.com/2019/04/19/new-york-times-hits-new-low-with-mortifying-notre-dame-correction/##There%E2%80%99s+one+small+problem+here.+There%E2%80%99s+no+statue+of+Jesus+inside+Notre+Dame.+What+Father+Fournier+was+referring+to+was+the+Blessed+Sacrament%2C+communion+bread+that%2C+according+to+Catholic+doctrine%2C+contains+the+real+presence+of+Jesus+Christ.+Sure+enough%2C+The+New+York+Times+later+appended+this+correction+to+the+story%3A+%E2%80%9CAn+earlier+version+of+this+article+misidentified+one+of+two+objects+recovered+from+Notre-Dame+by+the+Rev.+Jean-Marc+Fournier.+It+was+the+Blessed+Sacrament%2C+not+a+statue+of+Jesus.%E2%80%9D+How+could+the+newspaper+possibly+confuse+these+two+things%3F+The+most+logical+explanation+is+that+Father+Fournier+referred+to+the+%E2%80%9Cbody+of+Christ%2C%E2%80%9D+and+the+reporter+took+his+words+literally+and+not+seriously.+It+doesn%E2%80%99t+appear+to+be+a+translation+error%3B+the+reporter+who+wrote+the+story%2C+Elian+Peltier%2C+appears+to+be+fluent+in+French+and+tweets+in+the+language+regularly. keithly christian journalism via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:keithly/b:61135ac7eb48/ 2017-05-27T17:45:10+00:00 http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/11/the-power-of-patience##Given+all+this%2C+I+want+to+conclude+with+some+thoughts+about+teaching+patience+as+a+strategy.+The+deliberate+engagement+of+delay+should+itself+be+a+primary+skill+that+we+teach+to+students.+It%E2%80%99s+a+very+old+idea+that+patience+leads+to+skill%2C+of+course%E2%80%94but+it+seems+urgent+now+that+we+go+further+than+this+and+think+about+patience+itself+as+the+skill+to+be+learned.+Granted%E2%80%94patience+might+be+a+pretty+hard+sell+as+an+educational+deliverable.+It+sounds+nostalgic+and+gratuitously+traditional.+But+I+would+argue+that+as+the+shape+of+time+has+changed+around+it%2C+the+meaning+of+patience+today+has+reversed+itself+from+its+original+connotations.+The+virtue+of+patience+was+originally+associated+with+forbearance+or+sufferance.+It+was+about+conforming+oneself+to+the+need+to+wait+for+things.+But+now+that%2C+generally%2C+one+need+not+wait+for+things%2C+patience+becomes+an+active+and+positive+cognitive+state.+Where+patience+once+indicated+a+lack+of+control%2C+now+it+is+a+form+of+control+over+the+tempo+of+contemporary+life+that+otherwise+controls+us.+Patience+no+longer+connotes+disempowerment%E2%80%94perhaps+now+patience+is+power.+If+%E2%80%9Cpatience%E2%80%9D+sounds+too+old-fashioned%2C+let%E2%80%99s+call+it+%E2%80%9Ctime+management%E2%80%9D+or+%E2%80%9Ctemporal+intelligence%E2%80%9D+or+%E2%80%9Cmassive+temporal+distortion+engineering.%E2%80%9D+Either+way%2C+an+awareness+of+time+and+patience+as+a+productive+medium+of+learning+is+something+that+I+feel+is+urgent+to+model+for%E2%80%94and+expect+of%E2%80%94my+students. keithly education learning psychology via:ayjay https://pinboard.in/u:keithly/b:d0e819ab1073/