(originally posted as a comment on the blogpost “Few quick thoughts on Brexit” by Chris Arnade)
I am still confused by the book “Status Anxiety” by Alain de Botton. Either it is just a stupid banality stating the obvious, or Douglas Adams is right and “It is a rare mind …
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Read MoreOK, so I was wrong. I wonder what happens next.
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Read MoreComment I posted on the First Things blog.
I have just returned from the open air concert of the Czech Philharmonic in the Prague Castle, which finished with the last movement of the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I would really love this to be played in some great park in …
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Read MoreI am sick in the bed, so I have spent a day or so listening to the Dan Carlin’s excellent podcast series “Death Throes of the Republic”. It is an excellent story. (Original draft of this post has been lying in my Drafts folder for couple of years, so …
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Read MoreI had wished for long to say somewhere publicly the following, and finally yesterday I had an opportunity which forced me to say it on the comment on the First Things analysis of the Havana Declaration of pope Francis I. and the Moscow patriarch Kirill:
You must be new here …
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Read More(originally comment on Dan Carlin’s “Common Sense” show no. 298)
Hi, Dan,
I have been amused by your plea for the intelligent discussion. I am persuaded there is a platform for the increasingly intelligent discussion, which is even more interesting in that it is more successful more depth it …
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Read MoreI just have to mention a fascinating interview on EconTalk about the climate change. More than the particular climate science (about which I know nothing and care less and less), I found it fascinating confirmation of the dictum attributed to C. S. Lewis (but now I cannot find a proper …
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Read More(comment on the blogpost on The First Things)
I think problem of yours (and the author of the article, how much I look up to him otherwise) is that you don't distinguish between the role of the state and morality. I don’t believe, that purpose of the state and …
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Read More(my comment on the EconTalk show on banking)
@John Reisink
I am afraid the reason is that we don’t have that much choices.
Which leads me to the issue which I am quite surprised nobody discusses at all (what am I missing?). As I understand the dim archaic past …
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Read MoreI have been reading Tim Bray’s blogpost on how he started to work in Amazon, and I got ignited by the comment by len and particularly by this (he starts quoting Tim):
“First, I am totally sick of working remotely. I want to go and work in rooms …
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Read More(Dan Carlin on his discussion board made some comments on the Ukraine situation, this is my reply.)
Dan wrote:
Moving NATO right next to Russia isn't just threatening to them, it seems like a betrayal of what we told them after the USSR fell.
Can you hear how incredibly patronizing …
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Read MoreIt is a sad day today. … Or let’s start from somewhere else. I have grown up in the Communist Czechoslovakia. I remember that moment, I was probably something around seven years old, and I was sitting on the floor of our living room and thinking where to hide a …
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Read More(On Dan Carlin’s discussion board somebody asked about fascism. After he got reference to some basic texts and Wikipedia, I felt compelled to write down couple of thoughts which have been busy in my mind for the last couple of months.)
In the mainstream history (and literature) fascism (and …
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Read More(odpověď na diskusi na Facebooku)
Nejprve technická poznámka k dlouhým komentářům na Facebooku. Psát je v tomhle okénku Facebooku je utrpení (navíc není možné vložit konec řádku), lepší je to napsat vedle v nějakém normálním textovém editoru a pak copy & paste. Nebo ještě lépší je udělat to, co dělám tady …
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Ahoj, Dane,
strávil jsem teď pozdněvečerní chvíli čtením Tvých článků duchovních i politických a chtěl bych Ti moc poděkovat. Většina mi jich moc potěšila a i když se vším nesouhlasím na 100 %, tak jsem musel s překvapením konstatovat, že mám pocit, že se …
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Read MoreOh well, I tried to avoid falling into trap of commenting publicly all the stuff I have no clue about, but I cannot avoid thinking about politics, when I have finally found Richard Roth’s quotation on pain:
According to the Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, spirituality is not for people …
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