Thinking about starting another blog
10/19/2011
To be called You Know What Else Makes Me Mad?
To be used as an outlet for my considerable irritation at various inhabitants and phenomena of the contemporary world. Sort of a Mr. Hyde to this blog's Dr. Jekyll.
But I really don't think it would be healthy for me. It certainly wasn't for Dr. Jekyll.
Resist the devil and he will flee.
Posted by: Craig | 10/19/2011 at 02:53 PM
Excellent advice.
Posted by: Mac | 10/19/2011 at 03:05 PM
If he knew how to do that, he wouldn't be thinking about starting that blog.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 10/19/2011 at 03:16 PM
Humph. I haven't started it, have I? And I already resisted one temptation: I really wanted the name to be You Know What Else Pisses Me Off?.
Posted by: Mac | 10/19/2011 at 03:24 PM
Oh. Well then, I'm proud of you for not saying that.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 10/19/2011 at 05:23 PM
LOL!!!
Posted by: antiaphrodite | 10/20/2011 at 10:34 AM
I probably also have a duty not to give you any encouragement along these lines.
Posted by: Mac | 10/20/2011 at 11:02 AM
Encouragement to LOL or get mad? :-D
Posted by: antiaphrodite | 10/20/2011 at 11:12 AM
To express your annoyance more freely.:-)
Posted by: Mac | 10/20/2011 at 11:15 AM
LOLOLOL :-D
Posted by: antiaphrodite | 10/20/2011 at 11:25 AM
This would not be a good idea for me. I like essays like this...
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/09/despair-hope-and-the-built-world/
...far too much for my own good.
Posted by: Rob G | 10/20/2011 at 04:36 PM
Well, that was invigorating!
I used to feel much more the way you and the writer do. A lot of my indignation has worn off now, though I can still get pretty irritated at things like Escalades and, even worse to me, Mercedes/BMW/Volvo SUVs. I always found myself chastened by thoughts along the lines of those expressed by the commenter Kyle on that post. Conceptually, we *ought* to be able to have antibiotics but not shopping malls, but in the world as it is they co-exist, and we can't undo it.
Posted by: Mac | 10/20/2011 at 10:37 PM
I'm not unsympathetic to what Mr. Peters says (although I'm not habituated to about the half the things he mentions), and I'm sure that I would prefer living in the sort of world that he envisions. When we were younger, that was our goal, but it just hasn't happened. What has happened is that it's become obvious to me that God didn't put me in a place like that. He put me here, and He has something for me to do here. I just have to ask myself, "Okay, what can I do here?" And even though I'm not particularly good at it, things turn up.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 10/21/2011 at 10:05 AM
I agree, but that view is not totally incompatible with griping. :-)
When I was working on Caelum et Terra I always felt a bit hypocritical, in that the mag was so anti-modern, anti-technological, etc., but I had no intention of trying to remove myself from those things. Perhaps I might have tried it in my youth, if the right opportunity had come along, but I was already over 40.
Actually I thank God now that I (we--me, wife, children) never tried to become part of some intentional Christian community, though we were looking for something like that at one point. I'm about as sure as one can be about might-have-beens that it would have been...well, I started to say a disaster, but to be slightly less fatalistic, let's say I don't think it would have worked out.
Posted by: Mac | 10/21/2011 at 11:19 AM
I imagine I'll mellow out as I get older. I don't want to be a crochety old man.
Posted by: Rob G | 10/21/2011 at 11:27 AM
I'm finding it difficult not to.
Posted by: Mac | 10/21/2011 at 11:31 AM
I didn't know needlework was so bad for men, Rob.
Posted by: Louise | 10/23/2011 at 05:06 AM
groan
Posted by: Janet | 10/23/2011 at 06:34 AM
We approach it with knitted brows.
Posted by: Mac | 10/23/2011 at 09:58 AM