HeyJaredPaul O’Brien
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Because Pride Goeth Before the Fall (opens the original)
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One of our culture’s dispiriting trends since the 1960s has been a growing insistence that one be proud of this or that superficial quality or demographic label. One of our culture’s dispiriting trends since the 1960s has been a growing insistence that one be proud of this or that superficial quality or demographic label. I recall the 1968 Olympics, when Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood at the podium, having won the Gold and Bronze, respectively, in the men’s 200-meter sprint. As an American 1
Shaming the Shameless: A Fool’s Errand (opens the original)
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The Democratic Socialists of America are bolder in their nihilism than their forebears, but any political Darwinist would have predicted this evolutionary stage. About 30 years ago, a defense attorney asked if I would stipulate to the expertise of a proposed witness, a local community college professor. The proffered expert’s only memorable qualification was that she had authored (but not yet published) an academic paper that posited low self-esteem as the principal cause of criminal behavior. F
Cancel Culture and the Mark of Cain (opens the original)
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When beastly behavior brings no consequences, it will continue and accelerate. Life was already ugly, but a lot simpler, in humanity’s second generation. Abel paid the price his brother exacted, but at least without advance insult to his reputation. When Cain canceled his brother, it was mano a mano. Today, he’d have declared war on Facebook, dragged him through the mud on X, and his followers would have done the rest. Political correctness and wokeness paved the way to “cancel culture,” a moder
How Little has Changed Between 'Political Correctness' and 'Woke' (opens the original)
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Americans like their gas cheap and their speech free, and aren’t about to accept technical explanations or moral posturing to get in the way of either. “Politically correct.” I was introduced to that fatuous phrase about 35 years ago while watching an episode of the television series Thirtysomething. The following day, I mentioned it in a casual conversation with a colleague. Confessing that I had never before heard the expression, I told her I found an astounding clumsiness in its construction.
A Second Suffering: 2020 Hindsight (opens the original)
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The importance of Fauci’s non-testimony this week cannot be overestimated. By revealing nothing, he revealed everything. Ignoring the wisdom of Sophocles’ Chorus in Oedipus Rex to avoid “the double weight of past woes,” pondering 2020 has become my recent obsession. I am presently writing a novel and cannot, unfortunately, avoid revisiting the momentousness of that absurd year, and in this pursuit, as Oedipus did, I “suffer twice over” (so you won’t have to), trapped in a retrospective into a ki
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