The Crowhill Journal

Liquor sales are up. People are streaming videos. Some might be buying digital books. The game sites are certainly humming. Thermometers and other medical equipment are flying off the shelves.

What business would you like to be in right now? Preferably something unexpected.

Following “social distancing” rules, Pigweed and Crowhill once again broadcast from the land of Skype. They review two beers: Pastryarchy and a Scottish Wee heavy. Then they discuss human nature.

Is there a fundamental human nature, or is it totally malleable?

This is a key difference between the left and the right. The right takes humanity as a given, and tries to create a structure that accommodates man as he is. The left has a vision for a better society and tries to tweak man to fit in.

Conservatives are willing to tolerate equality, so long as it doesn’t get in the way of freedom, but liberals are willing to tolerate freedom so long as it doesn’t get in the way of equality.

You can’t ever enforce equality up to the highest-performing person. The only way to have equality is to bring the top down.

How does this relate to socialism, and to the effort to create a perfect man? The boys discuss this and many other topics.

The Babylon Bee is probably the best source of news on the internet. Sure, it’s a satire site. But they have a way of telling the truth through satire that’s better than the alleged news from other outlets.

I like this one: Chick-Fil-A Temporarily Changes Slogan To ‘Eat Fewer Bats’

Genesius Times looks like they’re trying the same gig, but … they’re not quite as clever. Still, there are a few good ones, like Nation shocked that kids raised to think only of themselves are thinking only of themselves.

China was warned decades ago that their markets were a potential source of a pandemic. They did nothing to mitigate the risk.

When the COVID19 outbreak started, they suppressed the truth, jailed dissenters, didn’t allow foreign experts in, and lied to the world, and to the World Health Organization. (WHO’s conduct is in this story is abysmal also, by the way.)

They hid the fact that COVID19 could be spread by human conduct. Lots of people are dead because of that lie.

We still don’t know crucial facts about this Chinese, Wuhan virus because in totalitarian cultures, following orders and supporting the party is more important than the truth.

It is way past time to end our dependence on China, and for the world to ostracize them for the brutal monsters they are.

In their first #coronavirus shut-down podcast, Pigweed and Crowhill drink and review two beers — For Pete’s Sake and Torpedo — and then discuss shame vs. guilt, and how a shame culture differs from a guilt culture. 

Although the words are sometimes used interchangeably, you can distinguish them. Guilt stems from the feeling that you have violated a moral norm. You can have guilt over something you’ve done alone in the dark. Shame requires an audience. It’s related to how others perceive you. 

Shame culture might also be called honor culture, and it leads to a very different sort of society. Guilt may be no fun, but it makes for a better culture than shame.