Day: July 18, 2005

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The Wonders of Connectivity…

Cell phones and internet…
Lovely Daughter was in for an extended weekend (with side trips to check out a neat job possibility south of here and a trip to the BIG City north to pick up more of her “stuff” that needed moving). Traveling back to OKC, this evening, in her wee car, big ole thunderstorm laid right along the turnpike.
Called me on cell phone for weather report. heh
(Interjection from Lovely Daughter, just now: “Ooo! There’s a rainbow!” 🙂
Was able on this end to look at the radar maps and report storm’s progress to her, call ahead on another line to let folks who were expecting her know she’d be running a lil late, etc.
Disconnected more and more in time and space and… independence, and yet… much more connected to hearth and home than Wonder Woman and I were at that age, at least partly (as tonight) through technological wonders.
Neat.
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America’s One-Party System

Short Shrift this a.m. I’ll just leave y’all with warring quotes, for now. More Later.

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for western civilization as it commits suicide. It allows one to feel good while watching everything one believes in collapse and be destroyed.”–James Burnham in Suicide of the West

And

“American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.”- R. L. Dabney (19th Century Reformed theologian)

Feel free to talk among yourselves…

Oh, and why not check out this biography of James Burnham, James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life. I think I’ll be angling for a copy soon, myself…