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Priesthoods belong to settled cultures. They mark agricultural surplus, centralized administration and social hierarchy. Prophets ignore those things. They are individuals who claim a special relationship to the divine. Prophets and priests are natural opponents. Nothing rattles an established priesthood like a new vision of truth.
The years came and went and the big sea that Melville wrote about stayed where it had always been, off the New England coast, and as his hero Ishmael writes about the feeling of November in his soul, I soon linked this book to autumn and I would find myself reading it accordingly every few years.
“I am not a member of any organized political party,” Will Rogers quipped. “I am a Democrat.” The donkey ran true to form in this last election.
Approaching the one year mark, opposition to Donald Trump takes three forms. The first remains stuck in the past, calling Trump an aberration. Kamala Harris herself is the best example of that mindset.
Thoughts on seeing those college kids get arrested in Boston for protesting Israel and punching the police: I remember being young myself and searching for goals and places and objects that seemed authentic.
Jimmy Kimmel made a tasteless joke on his talk show the other night. The head of the FCC got angry and voiced a rash threat.
Renaming our Department of Defense as the Department of War is a signature move for Donald Trump. It costs nothing (stationery supplies notwithstanding), it makes a splash, and it pleases his audience.
I did some light reading this summer. I finally finished Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Spoiler alert: Napoleon loses.
While I am no journalist, I know the difference between reporting and opinion, and this was presented as reporting. But I wondered about that assertion so I looked it up.