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Our society has learned to promote #complacency into a virtue. You call it a "moderate stance", and it's suddenly a good thing. Opposing evil is bad; it's extremist position, almost as bad as the evil itself. Complacency sounds bad too. But "hey, I don't support evil, I just keep an open mind, a moderate position here", and you're suddenly a praiseworthy person. Maybe "just a little, necessary amount of evil" is good, after all.
"I don't support slavery. I just want cheap goods, and I don't want to know how come they're cheap."
"I don't support animal cruelty, I just want cheap meat, and I don't want anyone to point out to me why it's cheap."
"I am tolerant of LGBTQ people, I just don't wanna see them."
"I don't want disabled people to die, I just expect that they find a job."

“If the question that broke McCarthyism in the 1950s was "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” then Trump’s answer today would surely be, “No, none at all.”

In that key exchange, McCarthy was accused of “reckless cruelty.” Yet, within Trump’s orbit, recklessness is a virtue. Cruelty is celebrated.

Trump’s supporters like to suggest that he is a modern-day Caesar. In truth, he more closely resembles Caligula, the cruel sadist whose motto was oderint dum metuant — “Let them hate me, as long as they fear me.”” - @…

'I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere, and less perfection in the others with more health virtue & freedom would be my choice.'
- Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 23 September 1800

Building Dreams With Virtue Homes
Be taken on a custom home building journey with the team behind Virtue Homes...
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The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue by YouTube
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Polite language has failed. Calm explanations have failed. Panels, op-eds, “both sides,” and soothing reassurances have failed. Fascism does not advance because people lack information. It advances because people are comfortable, distracted, anesthetized, and trained to mistake civility for virtue.
If you’re looking for gentle guidance, go find a museum placard. This article is not for you.
https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/pfbid0RkdkRtwVcbYaDRDbJ1kUacAXA1a3s5pGggkrKEqNwWe33gj6dDSWQboD42mhGXG3l

For Saint Augustine of Hippo, writing in North Africa in the fourth century,
authentic attention placed us in relation with the divine.
For Saint Ignatius of Loyola, holed up in his cave in Catalonia in the 1520s,
what he called “attentive contemplation” was both a daily practice and a moral imperative.
During the Enlightenment, close attention emerged as a virtue essential to knowledge and disciplined investigation,
-- as demonstrated in 1740, when the natural…

Opinion | The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.

Sonnet 066 - LXVI
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And…

In an interview, EIC Jeffrey Goldberg says the Atlantic added 50 journalists in 2025, for a total of 200 , and has ~1.5M paying subscribers, up from 1M in 2024 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/the-atlantic-jeffrey-goldbe…

How The Atlantic won 'tortoise and hare' race versus digital news start-ups
The Atlantic is in a "virtue cycle" of making a product people will pay for and putting the profit back into the business, its editor said.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/evangelicals-trump-national-prayer-breakfast/685908/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3j2xxOJGDWeh1CcTB3EHKnY

The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness as a Virtue
At the National Prayer Breakfast, the president tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics.

Rescued an old Lenovo laptop (with #IBM logo) for a colleague. And patience is a virtue, isn't it - with 1GB RAM... #Linux #did