What quarantine culture most intimately shares with middlebrow is a cultivation of the collective. It longs for sodality, a new place for the individual in a revived community.
quoting Stephen Daisley in the Spectator
Christian theology has made peace with its own antinomian tendencies—its simultaneous proclamations that we must discipline ourselves and that grace will breach and flood our flawed little disciplines
Some bad movies, for example, reveal through sheer lack of self-awareness the incoherencies and solecisms of the culture that produces them
its hermetic vision of human psychology and conversation, its endearingly transparent wish-fulfillment aspects
on the twilight films
Ending racism, a vast set of institutionalized practices, is hard enough, but “destroy whiteness” hits my ears as though it were a koan or aporia—a thing you say because you want, for some spiritual or other purpose, to make thinking itself grind its gears
