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

In which I took my own horn, I'll be it in a modest and becoming fashion.

Introduction. In the month of November recall, it is imperative that I write slashing and

a critical prose, and that I do so without qualification. This is a standard, I believe,

all of us by this point have more or less internalized. Call a spade, a spade, and do so without

bringing shovels or hand trials into it. But there's another necessary November task analogous

to the first, which must also be undertaken without any awkward shuffling of the feet.

I bring this up because this week the good folks at Canon Press released a documentary featuring

Moa, this Miss Piggy would have it, and the title for this doc is How to Save the World.

The subtitle is in 11 simple steps, and with an asterisk next to simple that explains how simple

and easy are not to be treated as synonyms. This second November task is one commended by Boethius,

when he noted that from time to time it is necessary for one to two to one's own horn.

I will get to that shortly. After that, I will also get to the importance of this documentary.

Give me a minute. Some hostile critics took the name of this documentary as a fine display of

megalomania, and I'm not going to explain to them how it is not megalomania for that would be to

explain to them. I will, however, venture to say that people who cannot define marriage, sex,

gender, sex organ, boys, girls, men, or women are certainly not to be trusted with terms like megalomania.

That is because they are trying to get control of all the psych wards so that they can put sane people

there, and I really don't think we should give them the keys. Think about it. Somebody who

submits to the created order as a fixed given assigned to us by our Creator God is thought to

be a megalomaniac, while someone else who treats creation as their own personal etch

of sketch, one that they can turn upside down and shake in order to redraw everything,

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