We're living among the descendants. We ARE descendants. Yet we are also ancestors.

"It is impossible for things or constitutions to remain in the same esteem among the descendants that they had among the ancestors."
~~Martin Luther, from his Lectures on Ecclesiastes delivered in 1526, specifically on Eccl. 1:16

#constitution #TheMoreThingsChange #PlusCaChange #MartinLuther

"Controversial in its day, her novel had to tread a careful path to avoid the accusation that it was alarmist about the Führer’s aims."

#TheMoreThingsChange...

English writer’s forgotten ‘masterpiece’ predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/08/rediscovered-a-young-english-novelists-warning-of-the-nazi-threat

BREAKING: Grindr says it welcomes gay and bi-sexual couches to join its service. Love seats could be next. The company reports that @JDvance has single-handedly driven demand among Republicans, evangelicals, and various conservative operatives and constituencies.

#TheMoreThingsChange

"Nowadays people no longer know how to read. When they read a book, even the Analects, they are the same kind of people before they read the book and after they read the book. This is no different from not having read the book." -- Cheng Yi (1033-1107)

#reading #TheMoreThingsChange #Confucianism

Listening to the recent #TheDownbeatPodcast with Bryan Garris of #KnockedLoose where they were talking about #MachineHead at Dynamo Open Air 1995 and holy shit this slaps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fdYJ3ldJvI

I have a soft spot for old MH, it's just so raw. #TheBlackening is a masterpiece but #TheMoreThingsChange is equally great

#metal #NuMetal #ModernMetal #music

@CarlG

My evil back-of-the-head voice immediately edited your final comment to "Tempest in a teapot Dome."

#themorethingschange