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Richard Weaver

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Book Club: Ideas Have Consequences {Chapter 6}

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] lot of what Weaver says in Chapter 6 {The Spoiled-Child Psychology} of his book Ideas Have Consequences has been, of necessity, said many times in recent years. There are a lot of people talking about the entitlement mentality, which is basically the modern wording for “spoiled-child psychology.” If you were reading along and wondering if I’d be able to make the leap to education this week, well … all I can say is it’s in there! Ahem. How Continue Reading…
August 15, 2012
Quotables: Ideas Have Consequences

Ideas Have Consequencesby Richard Weaver As the modern world is organized, the ordinary readers seems to lose means of private judgment, and the decay of conversation has about destroyed the practice of dialectic. Consequently the habit of credulity grows. {p. 97} Jefferson observed at one time that it would be better to have newspapers and lack a government than to have a government and be without newspapers. Yet we find him in his seventieth year writing to John Adams: “I Continue Reading…
August 9, 2012
Book Club: Ideas Have Consequences{Chapter 5}

If, last week, I was seeing parallels between Weaver and Schaeffer, this weeks I do declare that I’ve had sightings of Neil Postman and Marshall McLuhan everywhere I look! It is entirely possible that Postman was channeling Weaver when he wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, if not Technopoly as well. In fact, one of the best ideas I came away with after reading Postman was that content is not all that matters when it comes to media. The idea that formatting Continue Reading…
August 7, 2012
Quotables: Ideas Have Consequences

Ideas Have Consequencesby Richard Weaver Since under conditions of modern freedom the individual thinks only of his rights, he does not refer his action to the external frame of obligation. {p. 70} The sin of egotism always takes the form of withdrawal. When personal advantage becomes paramount, the individual passes out of the community. We do not mean the state, with its apparatus of coercion, but the spiritual community, where men are related on the plane of sentiment and sympathy Continue Reading…
August 3, 2012