There’s a paraphrased quote often attributed to St. Augustine: “Our greatest virtues are, at best, splendid vices.”
The idea applies today in a new way:
- We celebrate virtue signaling without virtue.
- We praise awareness without understanding.
- We reward emotional resonance over truth.
A society that reads only headlines and memes can’t discern between horizontal kindness (which feels good) and vertical obedience (which costs something). That’s why Augustine, Calvin, and Sproul matter more than ever.
As Neil Postman warned in Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), we didn’t get 1984; we got Brave New World — not through tyranny, but through entertainment, triviality, and the slow death of serious discourse.
Those of us who dare to think are the only chance the world has. Laziness is not an option.
Okay. That’s enough heavy posts for one day.
This is the video Grok Imagine created from a still photo of a duck hunting trip.
In the first half, attorney Sean Maloney from Second Call Defense joins me to explain the lessons gun owners can learn from what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse.
In the second half, I discuss a home invasion case from Oceanside California in which the homeowner successfully defended himself.
...and Why Confiscation Is a Pipe Dream
https://gunguy.tv/2025/11/08/why-no-one-knows-how-many-guns-are-in-america-and-why-confiscation-is-a-pipe-dream/
https://www.ice.gov/field-office/san-diego-field-office
Trump and Tom Homan are not doing enough to get the 50 million illegal aliens out of the country; at the same time, they are murdering American citizens. At this rate, ICE is working; they'll never clean out the illegal aliens to stop the crimes and illegal voting taking place now. I used to help on the border 20 years ago with the San Diego Minutemen border watch group. I'm retired now, but I'll keep my eyes open and on the lookout for the criminals ready to call what I see to help Trump and Tom Homan. In the past, I have been shot at twice and had an IED go off under my truck as a message to me. I now carry a gun at all times, a suggestion of law enforcement. YOU SEE SOMETHING REPORT IT TO ICE or police.
