Jason Kuznicki

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Editor in chief, @Liberalism.org. A gay dad, still cultivating his garden on the Big Island. Views expressed here are strictly my own. 🍍🌴🌱📖🏳️‍🌈🌐☸️

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Jason Kuznicki@jkuznicki· Jul 17

There are some chimps fighting, and then a whole lot of time passes. A guy gets locked out. Then more time passes and it’s kinda weird at the end.

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Jason Kuznicki@jkuznicki· Jul 17

An order of magnitude worse than at home.

AQI screenshot from Puna district, Hawai'i reads 13 just now.

Jason Kuznicki@jkuznicki· Jul 17

Madison too thought otherwise; for him, government governs the citizens—maybe an unfashionable notion today:

“In Federalist no. 51, James Madison, himself an avid student of politics, observed that, "in framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."“

Jason Kuznicki@jkuznicki· Jul 17

A fine time to be back on the mainland

The air quality index is 246 here, “very unhealthy.”

Jason Kuznicki@jkuznicki· Jul 16

I haven’t read it. Is this from Wikipedia a reasonable gloss? The problem is less the relative importance of literalism and allegory, and more about how there are multiply conflicting literal claims.

While De Genesi ad litteram does not reject allegorical exegesis, it does argue that this cannot be the only approach a theologian takes. In this way, Augustine breaks from the interpretive methods favored by Philo and Origen. 6] Augustine argues that objections brought against the literal truth of the first chapters of Genesis invariably rest upon the baseless assumption that the objector has found the true meaning of the text.

Augustine recommends prudence when multiple interpretations of a passage are possible, and warns against presenting specific readings as if they are absolute and unquestionable, in order to avoid experts in fields outside of theology seeing Christians as naive, and devaluing the Bible itself as a result.

Jason Kuznicki@jkuznicki· Jul 10

The whole "parents' rights" framing collapses the moment we consider the parents who are happy with their kids exercising autonomy about their gender. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-...

Screenshot: "As I argued then, this teleological approach to fashioning a child in the preferred image of the parent--and indeed, the nation--comes perilously close to treating them as a thing to be owned. Consider the framing around the "parental rights" issues championed by the MAGA right over the last few years, namely around school curriculum and LGBTQ rights. It's nothing new for parents to exert pressure over what their children see and learn in public spaces. But the language of the MAGA right's assaults on library books and discussions of gender and sexuality is particularly authoritarian."

Jason Kuznicki@jkuznicki· Jul 7

Even on his own terms, Vance wrongly uses "heroism" in place of "villainy."

"While Confederate generals fought for the 'wrong cause' and Union generals for the 'right cause,' he notes, the Confederates were 'strategically brilliant' and 'tragic in their heroism.' And really, both sides helped build the nation."

Jason Kuznicki@jkuznicki· Jul 7

"But Jason, if that's living badly--what then does it mean to live well?" Kill your immortality project. Those who understand will live happier. Care about living a good life today, and never about how many future people tramp to your moldering grave. Ernest Becker wept: