Servile Obedience
I owe my friend Bill a dinner for sending me examples of servile obedience in science, modernist music, and American education.
Science
If you want to read what a truly evil man had to say, read this excerpt:
“War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
“There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.”
Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1952
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Science_on_Society
Music
Catholics in the 1960s were vulnerable to a cultural revolution, the incursion of the “Guitar Mass”, because they had lost control of their own culture, at home, out in society and even in Church. They had ceased the culturally normal practice, in all aspects of their lives, of singing their own songs, unlike their grandparents and all generations before them, a minimally necessary condition for the continuation of cultural normality.
The Hootenanny Mass made an incursion into a cultural vacuum, a starvation of vitality because we had inadvertently allowed radio, talkies, t.v. and stereo hi-fi to technologically co-opt our musical culture.
Now many Catholics want to return to the influence of fine, devotional liturgical music; but in the recreational lives of many Catholics, even the traditional, they’re stuck in a time-warp from the 1960s, still passively consuming a culture substitute, when they themselves should be deciding what music to actively exercise in all aspects of their lives, by singing it themselves, as was the habit of all previous generations, cultures, and civilizations prior to end-stage.
https://www.sing-prayer.org/how-the-hootenanny-mass-invaded-the-church
Education
Ed School Follies: The Miseducation of America's Teachers Paperback – January 2, 2001 by Rita Kramer (Author)
Science
If you want to read what a truly evil man had to say, read this excerpt:
“War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
“There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.”
Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1952
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Science_on_Society
Music
Catholics in the 1960s were vulnerable to a cultural revolution, the incursion of the “Guitar Mass”, because they had lost control of their own culture, at home, out in society and even in Church. They had ceased the culturally normal practice, in all aspects of their lives, of singing their own songs, unlike their grandparents and all generations before them, a minimally necessary condition for the continuation of cultural normality.
The Hootenanny Mass made an incursion into a cultural vacuum, a starvation of vitality because we had inadvertently allowed radio, talkies, t.v. and stereo hi-fi to technologically co-opt our musical culture.
Now many Catholics want to return to the influence of fine, devotional liturgical music; but in the recreational lives of many Catholics, even the traditional, they’re stuck in a time-warp from the 1960s, still passively consuming a culture substitute, when they themselves should be deciding what music to actively exercise in all aspects of their lives, by singing it themselves, as was the habit of all previous generations, cultures, and civilizations prior to end-stage.
https://www.sing-prayer.org/how-the-hootenanny-mass-invaded-the-church
Education
Ed School Follies: The Miseducation of America's Teachers Paperback – January 2, 2001 by Rita Kramer (Author)