Sodomites, tarts, Moors, theologians, geometrists and sundry rabble -- the day of glory is here! Our candidate is emerging from the great mass of the people! Don your bottle-green velvet jackets, brandish your plastic cutlasses, you lucky dogs! The eschaton is about to be immanentized! The New Jerusalem is, in fact, New Orleans!
The Divine Right Party on the march
Tuesday July 15, 2008
Categories: A Confederacy of Dunces, Politics (general)
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Peter, grow some sense: what site would you like the hacker to choose to send you to?
Only in America!
Maybe the real Ignatius Reilly would be half-decent as President. He despises the modern world and pines for a return to medieval philosophy. Plus the whole world would now get to hear incessant rants about Boethius and the Consolation of Philosophy. Not really all that bad, in my view. Getting a Don Quiqute-like buffoon in office could very well be an improvement over our current crop of candidates.
Still waiting for that film adaptation though. Who could possibly do justice to the character of Ignatius Reilly?
"Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age," Ignatius said solemnly. "Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may skip the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That is mostly dangerous propaganda. Now that I think of it, you had better skip the Romantics and the Victorians, too. For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books."
A true conservative with philosophical views near and dear to my heart...
I got a video with the link.
I predict a fatwa on Hollywood musical comedies.
The Prytania will be the new Ford Theater.
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