Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.

In which I declined to gilder the lily July 31st, 2023, introduction.

Not only are we in the thick of a crisis, it is a crisis that is largely driven by human

choices, reactions, personalities, and various other things that contribute to all our societal

Jim jams. This means that as we seek to analyze what the heck is going on,

which is the daily duty pressed in upon us by the latest outrage, we will constantly be tempted

to resort to bovourism as the path to understanding. And here's the thing. While sometimes it might

be the explanation, it usually is not. A blind score finds a nut, etc. Bovourism is the fallacy that

seeks to answer someone's position by pointing to all the factors that, in your view,

caused them to become so silly. The term was coined by CS Lewis because this transparent dodge

was rampant in his day. In our day, it has moved from an everyday and commonplace fallacy

to a way of life, to an art form, and for the progressives to a set of marching orders for their

secret police. Last week, Canon Press announced the re-release of George Gilder's great book,

Minute Marriage. In the aftermath of that announcement, there was something of a commotion,

with a goodish bit of criticism coming at us from the right. Now, critical interaction with the

thought-provoking book is to be expected and to be valued, but I was frankly astonished at how

the whole thing promptly reduced to a generational, okay boomer dismissal. Now, Gilder is a tad older

than we boomers, but it turns out that he will do in a pinch. In addition, I was also astonished at

how his foundational dismantling of feminism was categorized as some kind of longhouse accommodation

of feminism, e.g. George Gilder. And as you should all know by now, whenever I am astonished,

I begin typing. Consequently, this morning's post is something of a rock pile, but I think you should

be able to manage. It is the scintillating rock pile filled with metaphors and adjectives.

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