Self-un-awareness
[I]f you believe the scapegoat is guilty, you are not going to name it as being “my scapegoat.” If France scapegoats Dreyfus, no one will recognize that Dreyfus is a scapegoat. –René Girard, in Cynthia…
Day: June 26, 2025
Today’s One-Liner (#184)
Among traditional religion’s strongest resources are precisely its ability to create and validate occasions for silence, contemplation, emptiness in the sense of cessation from activity and worldly meaning. –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of…