Bruce Charlton's Notions

* It is vital to understand that political correctness is immune to evidence - and I do not mean relatively-immune, such that PC requires ...

* Properly, pastiche is a method of training and not a legitimate mode of culture. Pastiche is when the primary goal of creativity is to...

* [Message for those of you who have been following my recent ruminations on political correctness:   this posting represents the first ...

* I was walking up Northumberland Street a couple of days ago, and heard a chap singing Elvis karaoke - very pleasantly. It made me reflec...

* Scrunches are dissonances in diatonic music, caused - usually - by having different musical lines move close-together: either in counter...

* I have said that the modern secular intellectual elite are only kept going - in the face of their nihilism - by continual distraction. ...

* I agree with C.S. Lewis that paganism is the default spiritual state for thoughtful humans. Reason plus human nature = paganism But ...

* The answer is yes - PC is self-destroying, after all - but that isn't necessarily good news. * Clearly, the politically correct ...

* To continue the argument of the previous post - http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/11/nationalism-today-nationalism-of.html -...

* Leaving aside the question of whether or not it would be beneficial, is it likely that resurgent secular nationalism can unify the right...

* Most secular conservatives and libertarians agree with liberals that nations should be ruled by an intellectual elite - this is simply t...

* The evolution of political correctness was an exponential process going back a thousand years and more, but (as with all exponential pro...

* The only safe people in a system of political correctness are members of indulged victim groups. They can do what they like, and it is u...

* There is no safety for the ruling elite in a system of Political Correctness; anyone at all is susceptible to denunciation for any reaso...

* Since modernity broke apart the moral universes of action and motivation (of faith and works)... http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/...

* There is a real problem about goodness in secular modernity - a division between being good and doing good: between motivations and acti...

* I first read Tolkien's essay On Fairy Stories about 1975, and liked it a lot - except for the Epilogue, which made no sense to me. I...

* When you look at how many new plays get written and performed every year, it is remarkable how little drama is lasting - how little of i...

* I have often seen references to Charles Williams (1996-1945) as if he were uneducated, which is not true. Indeed, it is based on a mis...

* One special quality of modernity is the thinness of life. The way in which questioning leads us down a path in which every answer is m...

* Why do non-modern-classical instruments and players sometimes sound much better than modern classical instruments and players? Not alw...