I find Doctor Steven LaTulippe to be one of those rare individuals with an exceedingly great capacity to stimulate thinking far beyond "the usual."His article above, in this man's opinion represents a staunch and steadfast placement of causal factors indelibly inherent -- particularly in America. (The "end always justifies the means" type thinking, so prevalent today) **********As a fine wine is placed aside to age with time, so too are the articles written by Dr. LaTulippe. He just keeps getting better and better as time passes by.Capt. A.**********
This story is a perspective on the current state of affairs in the world, which I hadn't heard before. I treat articles about old cultures with a bit of skepticism, because they usually have a romantic viewpoint about how things were so much better "back then" because such-and-such was a better poet than anybody alive today. These things turn me off, because they're generally very subjective and not really suitable for an intellectual article. Dr. LaTulippe does not fall into any of the romantic trappings of his predecessors, to any significant extent; but instead delivers a fact-based comparison of cultures which is informative to the reader.
I believe that the ancient myths about fantastic beasts ultimately resides in the notion of a society as an organism, with the traits of the monsters representing traits of the cultures they represent. While an adolescent may not emerge from the body of a senior citizen, the phoenix does rise from the ashes of its own death.Whether Western Culture is, ultimately, an aberration not to be repeated, or a phoenix that will rise from its own destruction, remains to be seen.
captaOct 26, 2006
I find Doctor Steven LaTulippe to be one of those rare individuals with an exceedingly great capacity to stimulate thinking far beyond "the usual."His article above, in this man's opinion represents a staunch and steadfast placement of causal factors indelibly inherent -- particularly in America. (The "end always justifies the means" type thinking, so prevalent today) **********As a fine wine is placed aside to age with time, so too are the articles written by Dr. LaTulippe. He just keeps getting better and better as time passes by.Capt. A.**********
jpitt42Oct 26, 2006
This story is a perspective on the current state of affairs in the world, which I hadn't heard before. I treat articles about old cultures with a bit of skepticism, because they usually have a romantic viewpoint about how things were so much better "back then" because such-and-such was a better poet than anybody alive today. These things turn me off, because they're generally very subjective and not really suitable for an intellectual article. Dr. LaTulippe does not fall into any of the romantic trappings of his predecessors, to any significant extent; but instead delivers a fact-based comparison of cultures which is informative to the reader.
tarvokOct 26, 2006
I believe that the ancient myths about fantastic beasts ultimately resides in the notion of a society as an organism, with the traits of the monsters representing traits of the cultures they represent. While an adolescent may not emerge from the body of a senior citizen, the phoenix does rise from the ashes of its own death.Whether Western Culture is, ultimately, an aberration not to be repeated, or a phoenix that will rise from its own destruction, remains to be seen.
johnakellerOct 26, 2006
It's interesting to read LaTulippe's article on LRC given what Joe Sobran wrote, linked the same day: <a class="user" href="http://www.sobran.com/columns/2006/061005.shtml">http://www.sobran.com/columns/2006/061005.shtml</a> , about Islam understood in the context of how Christianity used to behave in the pre-post-modern world. Good stuff, Dr. LaTulippe!