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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-22/how-dilbert-s-scott-adams-got-hypnotized-by-trump

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2017/03/multiconfessional-communion

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/historical-origin-political-correctness

I thought of you when I read this quote from “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life” by Scott Adams –

“My boss, who had been a commercial lender for over thirty years, said the best loan customer is one who has no passion whatsoever, just a desire to work hard at something that looks good on a spreadsheet. Maybe the loan customer wants to start a dry-cleaning store or invest in a fast-food franchise—boring stuff. That’s the person you bet on. You want the grinder, not the guy who loves his job. So who’s right? Is passion a useful tool for success, or is it just something that makes you irrational? My hypothesis is that passionate people are more likely to take big risks in the pursuit of unlikely goals, and so you would expect to see more failures and more huge successes among the passionate. Passionate people who fail don’t get a chance to offer their advice to the rest of us. But successful passionate people are writing books and answering interview questions about their secrets for success every day. Naturally those successful people want you to believe that success is a product of their awesomeness, but they also want to retain some humility. You can’t be humble and say, “I succeeded because I am far smarter than the average person.” But you can say your passion was a key to your success, because everyone can be passionate about something or other. Passion sounds more accessible. If you’re dumb, there’s not much you can do about it, but passion is something we think anyone can generate in the right circumstances. Passion feels very democratic. It is the people’s talent, available to all.”

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The Good, Racist People https://nyti.ms/VHRiGy

If white people don’t like feeling the charge  of guilt by assocition they should lean into this experience to understand just a bit about what it is like to be black in America. 

It isn’t just blackness of course, it may be Hispanic, or dressing a certain way, or being a certain person oppoosite a social conflict with another group. 

The problem at heart is the self-righteousness and the presumption of righteousness for your ingroup. “He won’t molest that girl he’s a Christian…” 

Calvinism’s observation on human nature continues to persuade. 

http://theweek.com/speedreads/687625/chelsea-clinton-honored-lifetime-achievement-award-next-month-37

http://religionnews.com/2017/03/22/american-girl-steals-popes-hat/

http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2017/march/princeton-rescinds-tim-keller-kuyper-prize-women-ordination.html

https://aeon.co/essays/hierarchies-have-a-place-even-in-societies-built-on-equality

https://juicyecumenism.com/2017/03/18/opposing-tim-keller-at-princeton-seminary/