Ivory Towers Are As Rare As Bowling

Ivory Towers Are As Rare As Bowling Alleys In Tribal Cultures.

Like All The Best Radical Positions, Then, Mine Is A Thoroughly Traditionalist One.

The New Testament Is A Brutal Destroyer Of Human Illusions. If You Follow Jesus And Don't End Up Dead, It Appears You Have Some Explaining To Do. The Stark Signifier Of The Human Condition Is One Who Spoke Up For Love And Justice And Was Done To Death For His Pains. The Traumatic Truth Of Human History Is A Mutilated Body.

All Communication Involves Faith; Indeed, Some Linguisticians Hold That The Potential Obstacles To Acts Of Verbal Understanding Are So Many And Diverse That It Is A Minor Miracle That They Take Place At All.

Capitalism Is The Sorcerer's Apprentice: It Has Summoned Up Powers Which Have Spun Wildly Out Of Control And Now Threaten To Destroy Us.the Task Of Socialism Is Not To Spur On Those Powers But To Bring Them Under Rational Human Control.