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Packer s Four Americas
Thumb-Sucker of the Month. Of all I ve read this month, the opinion piece that most got me thinking (although
not, in point of fact, actually sucking my thumb while doing so) was George Packer s Four Americas article in
Atlantic magazine.
Whoa there, Derb. Isn t
Atlantic a lefty outlet, with anti-white word-salad merchant Ta-Nehisi Coates on the masthead? And isn t Packer himself left-progressive?
Yes and yes. Packer s more of an old-line liberal, though (he ll turn 61 in August) and capable of talking sense for quite long stretches before lurching reflexively into mention of the dark energies behind Reaganite conservatism, or the reality of planetary destruction, or how Donald Trump aligned himself publicly with hard-core racists. I took all those quotes from the Four Americas piece; and no, Packer doesn t identify any of those hard-core racists.
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Last week, it was revealed that the delightfully priapic Cerne Abbas giant might date to the 10th century (or more loosely, 700–1100). The origins of this 180ft-tall chalk figure etched onto a hillside in the Dorset Downs have long been a mystery; previous estimates have placed it anywhere from prehistoric times to the 17th century. Since the announcement of the new dating, determined by analysis of the soil undertaken by the National Trust, the thought that such an image was tolerated by the medieval Church, specifically Cerne Abbey in the valley below, has been met by some with puzzlement. Certainly, the figure’s aggression and nudity seem at odds with all the notions of Christian censorship we have developed since its makers first put shovel to soil. Perhaps this is one of the factors lying behind suggestions that the figure’s origins – if religious – are more likely to be pagan than Christian.