Tariq Bey’s Reviews > We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland > Status Update

Church is good, we pretend to be good for the church, but whole time the church was pretending to be good

"It (the church) has so successfully disabled a society's capacity to think for itself about right and wrong that it was the parents of an abused child, not the bishop, who were 'quite apologetic'"

Requiem mass, finally getting to the catholic kidfuckers

Jews in Dublin from Akmijan, guess how they were treated

Ballymun projects apparently tried to do things better & differently but failed miserably

Commercialization of Rising 50th anniversary, dhows the direction Eire is going. De Valera's still around somehow

Difficulties in Distinguishing a culture in an increasingly cosmopolitan world

"It must needs scandals come"

????

"We were punished for perceived transgression, but the punishment itself could be wildly transgressive"

A brothers story - 'before, he had always been pushing for more pay, or looking for easier work, or something. But now he didn't mind getting the toughest job - and the dirtiest - and he as always willing to change his shift to suit someone else'

& this is meant to be a good thing ? Ofc the church is pushing for obedience & acquiescence