From RR

• The ‘Enlightenment’. I’m a classical liberal. Can one be that and Catholic? Many classical liberals say yes; the drawbridge integralists (SSPX) and mainstream common knowledge as seemingly repeated here say no. I think the problem in this article is the misunderstanding or deliberate misuse of the word reason which is not by definition ‘freedom from religion to invent your own truth’ or ‘demonstrable truths on earth and revealed religion are mutually exclusive, the latter mere superstition’ but ‘conforming yourself to objective reality’.
• The state says you’re just too dumb to take care of yourself.
• Although advances in understanding both mental illness and neurodiversity (more) are wonderful there are caveats. One is the mentally ill and autistic-spectrum people falling into identity politics, a kind of self-centredness: rather than meeting normal people halfway while standing up for the same rights normals have (like to hold down a job if you can do the work), demanding that the state force normals to cater to you: using the problem as an excuse. (Which the wrong kind of conservative, some talk-radio types, accuse them of doing: of making up the problem.) The other is this: the state has an interest in pathologising everybody to control them.
• The disappearing Palestinian.
• Minimum wage, minimum jobs.
• The hell of war comes home, part II.
• Teacher oversteps her bounds. Reading a pupil’s mail essentially. IMO this wasn’t in loco parentis, just wrong.

Labels: neurodiversity, Palestine, peace, politics