Month: March 2011

• The Pursuit of Happiness Kills Stories

  The ethic of fidelity creates stories.  The struggle of living is a struggle to be faithful to something or someone outside the self. All else pales.  Interesting stories are about overcoming the obstacles to fidelity, because the interesting questions about your life and the lives you know are always about fidelity.  Will you be true?…

• The Ethic of Happiness Kills the Conscience

  In Romans 3: 12-16, the function of the conscience is to hold us accountable to the ethic of fidelity. But in its dark opposite, the ethic of happiness, the conscience has no purpose. The evangelists of the happiness ethic like to tell themselves, in the quiet of the night, that their pursuit of happiness is…

• The Myth of Female Peacefulness

  Some think that a government filled with women would be more peaceful; a senate of women would get more done with less conflict. But there is no evidence for this, and plenty of evidence for the opposite. Forget the “studies”. There are lots of real life laboratories, called workplaces. Go to a workplace dominated by…

• The Disingenuous Voice Of Political Activists

  Political activists are regularly outraged when their opponents mistreat them.  Well, I’m shocked that they are shocked. They must not understand their own axioms.  But let me back up and lay the groundwork by describing those things that seem obvious to me about political activity, and the personality type of the activist. Politics is the…