The Genius of Christopher Nolan

The word and title "inception" is itself an act of "inception."  The audience accepts the definition of this word given in the movie (putting an idea into another person's mind without that person noticing it), even though this is a made-up meaning, and the actual meaning of the word (a beginning) becomes hidden.  The real meaning of the word is what the film is actually about.

THE CATHOLIC LAND MOVEMENT

It is for this reason that over the lintel of every home and homestead we would build on the land might well be cut in stone: 
AND HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM AND CAME TO NAZARETH AND WAS SUBJECT TO THEM.12

http://distributistreview.com/the-catholic-land-movement/

The baseball-card bubble

The Federal Reserve was perhaps to blame. In 1994, then under the control of Mr Volcker’s successor, Alan Greenspan, it began a series of interest-rate increases that squeezed an economy that had not fully recovered from the previous recession

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636506-how-childrens-hobby-turned-classic-financial-mania-baseball-card-bubble

ANSWER TO JOHN CORT Dorothy Day

One of the saddest things about this whole controversy is that our opponents look upon agrarianism as visionary. Here is what Chesterton said about such a criticism:
THEY SAY IT (THE PEASANT SOCIETY) IS UTOPIAN, AND THEY ARE RIGHT. THEY SAY IT IS IDEALISTIC, AND THEY ARE RIGHT. THEY SAY IT IS QUIXOTIC, AND THEY ARE RIGHT. IT DESERVES EVERY NAME THAT WILL INDICATE HOW COMPLETELY THEY HAVE DRIVEN JUSTICE OUT OF THE WORLD; EVERY NAME THAT MEASURE HOW REMOTE FROM THEM AND THEIR SORT IS THE STANDARD OF HONORABLE LIVING; EVERY NAME THAT WILL EMPHASIZE AND REPEAT THE FACT THAT PROPERTY AND LIBERTY ARE SUNDERED FROM THEM AND THEIRS, BY AN ABYSS BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL.10
G.K. Chesterton, The Outline of Sanity (London : Dodd & Mead, 1937).

http://distributistreview.com/answer-john-cort/

Police: Man Shoots Mother And Daughter At Soccer Practice

Family members told police that Obeshaw was a friend of the family and had been staying with Watson and her boyfriend but had recently moved. 

http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_31835.shtml

Blackstone Public Assistance

The law not only regards life and member, and protects every man in the enjoyment of them, but also furnishes him with every thing necessary for their support. For there is no man so indigent or wretched, but he may demand a supply sufficient for all the necessities of life, from the more opulent part of the community, by means of the several statutes enacted for the relief of the poor, of which in their proper places. A humane provision; yet, though dictated by the principles of society, discountenanced by the Roman laws. For the edicts of the emperor Constantine, commanding the public to maintain the children of those who were unable to provide for them, in order to prevent the murder and exposure of infants, an institution founded on the same principle as our foundling hospitals, though comprized in the Theodosian code, were rejected in Justinian's collection.

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIXs1.html

GK Chesterton and Ezra Pound

... became friends as of 1934-1935.  In the 1935 letter, EP says "we are all three [EP, GKC, Hilaire Belloc] against Shaw, Wells, etc...."  Canto 45 is published in 1937.

St. Hilaire and St. Trophime in Canto 45 are probably puns on Hilaire Belloc and GKC (Trophimos means one who feeds or one who is fed in Greek, and GKC was notoriously well-fed).

Projects costing more than $4 million

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Books on Distributism

Fr. Vincent McNabb, The Church and the Land, IHS Press, 2003.  ISBN: 0971489467

The Rural Solution: Modern Catholic Voices on Going “Back to the Land”, several contributors, Traditionalist Press, 2003.  ISBN: 0954563204

Amintore Fanfani, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism, IHS Press, 2003.  ISBN: 0971489475
 
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, ed. Tobias J. Lanz, Light in the Darkness Publications, 2008.  ISBN: 9781932528107

Belloc Free Press

But what I do not see is the avenue whereby the great mass of the people can now be restored to an interest in the way in which they are governed, or even in the re-establishment of their own economic independence.[Pg 99]
So far as I can gather from the life around me, the popular appetite for freedom and even for criticism has disappeared. The wage-earner demands sufficient and regular subsistence, including a system of pensions, and, as part of his definition of subsistence and sufficiency, a due portion of leisure. That he demands a property in the means of production, I can see no sign whatever. It may come; but all the evidence is the other way. And as for a general public indignation against corrupt government, there is (below the few in the know who either share the swag or shrug their shoulders) no sign that it will be strong enough to have any effect.
All we can hope to do is, for the moment, negative: in my view, at least. We can undermine the power of the Capitalist Press. We can expose it as we have exposed the Politicians. It is very powerful but very vulnerable—as are all human things that repose on a lie. We may expect, in a delay perhaps as brief as that which was required to pillory, and, therefore, to hamstring the miserable falsehood and ineptitude called the Party System (that is, in some ten years[Pg 100]or less), to reduce the Official Press to the same plight. In some ways the danger of failure is less, for our opponent is certainly less well-organized. But beyond that—beyond these limits—we shall not attain. We shall enlighten, and by enlightening, destroy. We shall not provoke public action, for the methods and instincts of corporate civic action have disappeared.
Such a conclusion might seem to imply that the deliberate and continued labour of truth-telling without reward, and always in some peril, is useless; and that those who have for now so many years given their best work freely for the establishment of a Free Press have toiled in vain, I intend no such implication: I intend its very opposite.
I shall myself continue in the future, as I have in the past, to write and publish in that Press without regard to the Boycott in publicity and in advertisement subsidy which is intended to destroy it and to make all our effort of no effect. I shall continue to do so, although I know that in "The New Age" or the "New Witness" I have but one reader, where in the "Weekly Dispatch"[Pg 101] or the "Times" I should have a thousand.
I shall do so, and the others who continue in like service will do so, first, because, though the work is so far negative only, there is (and we all instinctively feel it), a Vis Medicatrix Naturæ: merely in weakening an evil you may soon be, you ultimately will surely be, creating a good: secondly, because self-respect and honour demand it. No man who has the truth to tell and the power to tell it can long remain hiding it from fear or even from despair without ignominy.To release the truth against whatever odds, even if so doing can no longer help the Commonwealth, is a necessity for the soul.

The Return of Electroshock Therapy

The treatment’s chief drawback, for now, is that without maintenance therapy (whether drugs or more ECT), its benefits last many patients only about six months to a year.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-return-of-electroshock-therapy/413179/

A SUMMARY OF THE 2015 ANNUAL REPORTS Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees

Social Security’s total expenditures have exceeded non-interest income of its combined trust funds since 2010, and the Trustees estimate that Social Security cost will exceed non-interest income throughout the 75-year projection period. The Trustees project that this annual cash-flow deficit will average about $76 billion between 2015 and 2018 before rising steeply as income growth slows to its sustainable trend rate after the economic recovery is complete while the number of beneficiaries continues to grow at a substantially faster rate than the number of covered workers.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/

Medicaid extension an aid to millions- American dwellers

Marc Sigoloff trusts he gets an opportunity to express gratitude toward President Obama in individual one day. “I truly trust that he spared my existence with what he did,” he says.

http://www.statesmantribune.com/expansion-of-medicaid-is-fairly-right/5602/

Marc Sigoloff of Springfield is known among Illinois collectors for his focus on Barack Obama buttons. At about 5,400 buttons, it is the largest Obama collection in existence, he said.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/7/71/155050/buttons-point-to-popularity-and-no-one-is-winning-in-illinois

Wendell Berry, Burkean The farmer-novelist on politics, faith, land, and economy

Modern America knows that divorce is good for business, and a marriage that makes a reasonably productive and self-sufficient household economy is bad for business.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/wendell-berry-burkean/

Clear Thinking on Race

 Take Brown v. Board of Education, the Court’s most important decision in the 20th century. Sowell does not discuss it, but the Court’s unanimous opinion was a mess. With its reliance on the results of an experiment involving black children who showed a preference for white over black dolls, it barely qualified as constitutional reasoning. Let’s leave the Constitution aside: What was the evidence that black children, as a consequence of segregation, acquired “a feeling of inferiority . . . unlikely ever to be undone”? Or that their preference for the white dolls was a sign of low esteem? The doll study had numerous flaws, including the sample size and the lack of a control group. But, most important, a study by the same researcher, Kenneth Clark, found that black children in a northern state without segregated schools were even more likely to prefer the white doll than those in the Jim Crow South.

Read more at: https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/345961/clear-thinking-race

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/05/the_brown_decision_s_doll_test_11_facts.html

http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode66.htm

In Defense of Christendom

http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-defense-of-christendom-1445296794

Robert McNair Wilson

http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7932513/Wynne%2C%20Anthony

McNair Wilson and Pound kept up a quarter-century's correspondence, from 1934 to 1959.

http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2012/07/death-of-banker-1934-by-anthony-wynne.html

MW Senior definitely never "embraced Fascism" but he did write a pro-Socialist novel, They Want Their Wages, under the pen name Harry Colindale

Barbarism

It may seem at first sight unjustifiable to describe ancient 
cultures of this kind as barbaric. But barbarism in the sense 
in which we are using the word is by no means the same thing 
as savagery. It is applied to any stage of social develop- 
ment which has not acquired the higher organisation of a 
settled urban and territorial state — in short, to the culture 
of the tribe as against that of the city. The essence of bar- 
baric society is that it rests on the principle of kinship 
rather than on that of citizenship or that of the absolute 
authority of the state. It is true that kinship is not the 
only element in tribal society; in practically every case the 
territorial and the military factors also intervene. But 
whereas in a civilised state the unit is the individual or the 
economic group, the unit of tribal society is the group 
of kinsmen. A man's rights depend not on his direct relation 
to the state, but on his position in the kindred, and in the 
same way crime is not conceived as an offence against the 
state, but as an occasion of feud or negotiation between two 
groups of kinsfolk. The guilt of blood lies on the whole 
kindred of the slayer and must be atoned by compensa- 
tion to the kindred of the slain. It is true that the 
higher political unit of the tribe or clan does not necessarily 
consist of men of common blood, though they are apt to 
claim such unity by some genealogical fiction. It is usu- 
ally a territorial or military union of groups of kinsmen. 
 
https://archive.org/stream/makingofeurope00daws#page/74/mode/2up