A concerning tendency within our societies is the continued rupture between people and the physical reality that surrounds them, replacing it instead with ideal abstractions which we project unto reality. It is important that we reorder our mentality and subject it to the objective reality that surrounds us.
In a world that has grown continuously more materialist, and negligent if not in denial of any transcendental power, we are plagued by a new wave of Pelagianism and even Milleniarism, believing that through technology we may achieve our own earthly salvation.
For a variety of possible reasons, we've strayed from having a clear idea of what the purpose of the State's existence is. Many follow (perhaps unconsciously) the liberal ideas of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, but what truly is the purpose of the State's existence from a Thomistic perspective?
A reflection on the usage of new media outlets as a means of conveying and communicating useful information in a meaningful way.
After some time using Rust, and initially being very skeptical, I give my first impressions of the Rust programming language.
Siete meditaciones sobre los dolores y los gozos de San José.
Although IDEs provide a unified development experience where one simply need use one single tool to perform a task (which uses other tools in the background), this seems to create confusion when used among people who are new to computer science. They find themselves unable to distinguish between what is the editor, what is the compiler, and what is the build system.
Of the (few) Catholic books I have read so far, this this the second book to have impacted me the most (the first being the Holy Bible). Dr. Hahn does a splendid job of interpreting the Book of Revelations as a description of the Holy Mass.
It would seem that the political discourse has shifted to one of Puritanism, where each faction wishes to present their ideas as pure, denying any atrocities committed, while presenting the opposing factions as absolute evil, emphasizing their atrocities. Yet this does not lead us to finding the best solution, but simply realizing that evil is a consequence of the fallen human condition.
For a long time I have attempted to reconcile the Church's recognition of Intellectual Property with the nature of culture as a Common Good. In this post I try to synthesize these two.
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