Leadingchurch.com

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/china-and-the-legend-of-ivanka

• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/10/new-age-ayn-rand-conquered-trump-white-house-silicon-valley
• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/09/possessed-3

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/851794827419275264

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-powerful-pessimism-of-what-it-means-when-a-man-falls-from-the-sky/522687/

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/01/522284707/stories-of-parents-and-children-in-what-it-means-when-a-man-falls-from-the-sky

SIMON: Why do you think so many people are interested in post-apocalyptic worlds at this point?

ARIMAH: The idea of the sort of dystopias has been gaining interest for the last couple of years, and I think that at some point we all know deep down that we’re doomed. And so I think we’re just sort of imagining the futures that are coming.

SIMON: Oh, my, do you really think we’re all doomed?

ARIMAH: I do. I’m a bit of a pessimist. I do think that human nature has sort of proven time and time again that we will indulge our baser impulses. I feel like we are on a cycle. So we do well for a while and then things go downhill. We just sort of keep, you know, riding this merry go round, and so we’re doomed.

SIMON: Boy, I don’t think I’ve ever ended an interview like that before. But can we get through the weekend, do you think?

ARIMAH: (Laughter) I think we can. I certainly hope so.

https://theweek.com/articles/691356/dcs-war-madness

The point is that regardless of which side the outside power favors, it has anointed itself the moral arbiter of the world, a position that grants it the authority to mete out justice and punishment to individuals and nations as it sees fit — and this despite the fact that no one elected this power to that ruling position, or even asked the world if it wished to offer its consent.

Every country in the world thinks well of itself. But we’re the only country in the world that expects every other country to defer to our self-evident wonderfulness — apparently even when Trump is launching the missiles.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/10/15245690/how-emotions-are-made-neuroscience-lisa-feldman-barrett

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/the-passion-of-southern-christians.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0&referer=

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-many-people-actually-feel-white-guilt/

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