Trying to get through it in order to critique it, but it’s long and turgid. Really needs editing.
[Update a while later]
Anyway, the editors at National Review waded through it.
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Trying to get through it in order to critique it, but it’s long and turgid. Really needs editing.
[Update a while later]
Anyway, the editors at National Review waded through it.
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Sigh. Well, I’m not a Catholic, but the Pope’s statements are important to a lot of people. Still, Popes have apparently felt for a while now that abortion (and contraception) is against Church doctrine, and a whole bunch of Catholics didn’t seem all that bothered. Liberals just sighed and wished the Pope would be quiet. Guess I can do the same; I don’t suppose it will make much difference to anyone who doesn’t agree with him already.
Hey, that’s why they call it preaching to the choir?
Well I’m Catholic but it doesn’t mean I take everything the Pope says as Word of God or something (yes I know I’m supposed to, but I don’t care).
He’s still a man so he’s still fallible.
“First shalt thou count out the Holy CO2, then shalt thou count to three hundred, no more. Three hundred shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three hundred. Four hundred shalt thou not count, five hundred is right out.”
Totally unsurprised that the Pope’s view of capitalism reflects the semi- (and sometimes not so semi-) fascistic political/crony capitalist system in Argentina. Closing in on 100 years since it was envisioned to be the country of the future. The irony is that his left cures would ensure a far more devastating version of that future everywhere.
People are products of their environment.
Meanwhile, the PBS News Hour last night was going wild over US “foodies” apparently flocking to Cuba to learn from the organic farming techniques adopted by that country since the Soviet collapse and food cutoff. Sure, it requires backbreaking labor for many more people to produce a given result, but as somebody once said about the natural condition of mankind…
The big thing was the Cubans allowed people to grow their own food and then to resell it in small farmer’s market instead of only allowing collective farms. So it was kinda of like the NEP agricultural policy in the Soviet Union.
It’s not like they had much choice. They didn’t have the Soviet Union giving them free food, oil, fertilizer, and pesticides anymore. Or buying their sugar for an inflated price either. So people just grew their food wherever even in the city. Not using much fertilizer or pesticides was a necessity, from lack of imports, not an actual desired thing.