My CMS The View from a New City

Nothing about the Super Bowl warrants the notion that its participants are superior in any meaningful way. Football rules are arbitrary, the officials fallible, the game produces no lasting effect and its outcome is capricious.

Here is a quote from Parley Pratt’s autobiography which quotes instruction given by Oliver Cowdery:

I therefore, warn you to cultivate great humility, for I know the pride of the human heart…With regard to superiority I must make a few remarks…God does not love you better or more than others…The soul of one man is a precious as the soul of another.

Looking through old year books I find I can’t help laughing at the hair styles.

I have been reading a collection of modern essays. The only unifying spirit of these essays is the view that the writer gets to dissect the subject with “insight.” In other words, the writer gets to judge the subject. The subject is usually a human being or human conduct. What gives the writer confidence in his/her judgments? The writer views the subject from above, from outside, from the benefit of hindsight, or scholarship or the prevailing consensus. It is assumed that modern wisdom and methods are superior to ancient ones.

The James Web Space Telescope has just discovered that there are galaxies older than the big bang. Those books based on the big bang theory are useless now. The modern is an unstable foundation upon which to build.