Pinhead Dancing

Readers may be familiar with the old shibboleth (posed as a question) designed to discredit Scholasticism: "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"



An absurd question, really, when applied to everyday life, and the phrase has come to represent the idea of a useless or impractical debate.

There is much of this going on at present: discussions that are intellectually interesting but of next to no practical value. We find them in the endless blah about the "banksters" and Obama, about "terrorists," about how best to prepare for a crisis, about this or that wonderful idea. This morning I encountered a debate over the Augustinian and Thomist viewpoints on predestination and free will, and this in a publication dedicated to spreading the Distributist ideal. The economies of the once-Christian West are being seized by secular materialist bankers and their political cronies while the capons of the mass media don't raise a squawk, and those who have a genuinely worthy alternative economic system are splitting hairs and flapping their gums? This is the way to go about Paradigm Change?

No, it is not. Distributism can be learned about by visiting IHS Press, where a number of excellent resources can be found, but reading alone--never mind gum-flapping--isn't going to do the job.

Rather than ask about angels on pinheads, one might better ensure a good supply of pins should sewing make a comeback once there is an interruption or cessation of the supply of cheap, shoddy clothing imported from China, Indonesia and wherever else people are easily exploited.

It is time for production to take pride of place back from trade, and you can change that paradigm on a personal level beginning at once. Imagine making something instead of buying it already made! Now don't imagine it: do it! Better yet, make more than one of whatever it is and see if you can find someone willing to trade with you for it. Local economy!

If distributism, mutualism, social credit or any "alternative" economic ideas interest you, put some part of them into practice. That's part of what goes on here at The Catacombs.

Perhaps you should begin by starting a Catacombs of your own. And while you do so, let the tongues wag, the gums flap and the angels dance where they may.

Commissar Creep

The link below is to a truly chilling article.

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/47141327.html

Anyone who still doubts the evil intentions of the puppet governments--the collaborators--of the International Evil Empire need read no further to understand that freedom of speech--indeed, all remaining rights and freedoms--are on the chopping block. The fleecing of the sheeple will quickly proceed to the slaughter.

There is little hope that the juggernaut can be stopped in the Northern Hemisphere, but it may well be derailed in the Southern. Those who have begin to eye the exit doors up north are closely watching political turns of events in the Southern Cone. Argentina, for example, is due for legislative elections on 28 June that may cause the left-leaning national government to lose its parliamentary majority and with it control of the ever-more-openly-rebellious provinces that supply the wherewithal for national welfare-state programs. The economies are in recession and increasing hardship is beginning to make itself felt. These countries, however, have a great growth potential now lacking in the north, and are ideal for those who would embrace the low-impact, localized economy, agrarian-based Paradigm that is likely to come to the fore as the only viable alternative to the failed model of finance capitalism and fractional reserve banking, and to the failed Paradigm of consumerism.

The creep of the commissars is speeding up, but the creepy commissars in many failing nations may soon find themselves creeped out by a citizenry that can and will take no more.