Does the World Really Need Another Blog?

No, probably not.  However, another voice against what popularly passes as "tolerance" is almost a moral necessity and may, if one hopes against hope, be of some minor practical good.   The first obligation of every blogger is to choose a title that is at least remotely catchy.   Following shortly behind, the obligation arises to explain why the tile was chosen.  This action sets the tone for the blog and may make the decision whether a potential reader, assuming the blog does not fall immediately and irrevocably  into the black-hole of  the unknown, should invest anymore of his precious time in reading or, dare we hope, even commenting on the blog. So where does the title come from?  It is a line from the excellently amusing English author G.K.Chesterton.           

" For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to remember the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."


An idea can attain to wide acceptance even if it contains conspicuous contradictions, so long as no-one draws any attention to them.  Contesting the fallacies is no sure way of success, but even in the face of long odds of making any difference, doing something always has a higher probability of success than doing nothing. I will try to avoid the absurdity of immediately reducing everything to reductio ad absurdum.  The contradictions in many fallacious and perhaps disingenuous arguments  can be found within the first few steps along the path to absurdity. As such, I think them best dealt with before the small pebble in the shoe (culturally speaking), moves from mere annoyance to the searing pain of a blister. Alas, on many issues I shall discuss, the social discourse and praxis is not merely blistered, but walking with a contorted nearly crippled gait; the ill consequences of adapting its steps to avoidance of the problematic contradictions upon which it has been walking for many miles now.

A disclaimer, I use a good bit of verbal flourish.  One might think I might be better of by using dry and surgical analysis set forth in a few spartan words.  I reject this idea of traveling down a sort of linguistic superhighway merely for the sake of expediency.  To be ultimately expedient, I might post but a single and terse statement as the totality of my blog  - Progressive moderns are completely daft and/or wholly dishonest peddlers of things that don't work!..and then go on to explore complexity only  in the dark and wonderful malty beers that I am wont to drink.  Though I will indeed drink such beers, I still intend to saunter with tipsy and charitable yet purposeful steps through cultural twilight that confronts us. Please God I do so to the benefit of others, to the consternation of malefactors, to my own amusement, and just maybe to the Glory of God and the exaltation of His Holy Church.