Status Updates From Morality

"Markets need morals, and morals are not made by markets." (P. 101)

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

There is no such thing as truth. There are truths, plural, each of which is to a large degree subjective. That is how academic discourse collectively arrived at the proposition put forward by Nietzsche a century earlier, that "there are no facts, there are only interpretations."

Epilogas

What makes the traditional family remarkable, a work of high religious art, is what it brought together: sexual drive, physical desire, friendship, companionship, emotional kinship and love, the begetting of children and their protection and care, their early education, and induction into an identity and a history.

The texted "I'm sorry" means, on the one hand, "I no longer want to have tension with you; let's be okay," and at the same time says, "I'm not going to be next to you while you go through your feelings; just let me know when our troubles are over."

I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful frame of mind, oblivious of my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment, everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to the thinking of the other matter it seems less important.'