Eternally essential!

Frankly, I think it is code for absolutely everything in their vile, domineering worldview. Fascism is all aesthetics and disgust reactions.

Aaaaand, I am already so sold with the Bingos and the Madhouse Glads showing up as opening acts. If only those crazy Englishmen the Beagles would get hip and get on the Archies tour bus!

musical ideas such that they engage fully with the conceptual complexes I want them to engage with. Let the ideas be expressed properly and with minimal compromises, even though they may not be heard in my lifetime, or ever. That's for the future to decide.

Do the work for the work's sake.

destructive prejudices. Trying to "popularize" one's work in a media context marked by massive inequality and consolidation may be a battlefield that only the already powerful can win on.

It's comforting to consider that maybe the best thing I can do in this imperfect world is try to execute my...

I think we, in fact, have two nickels, my fine internet fellow. XD

Are we talking about Christopher Pike? Because I think there's a shitton of Gender to talk about in Christopher Pike.

I am so glad you saw that, it is precisely why I used the term "scandalized!"

I apologize if I misread you! Yes, that is absolutely a real dynamic, and one tied up in a misplaced sense of moral superiority that religion can unfortunately instill. And non-believers, who are EXTREMELY diverse, should certainly not have to answer for Dawkins!

To the extent the Church denies its wrongdoings, it needs to be corrected! And I believe it's part of my duty as a member of the Church to share my thoughts and perspectives so that it can be a better institution in the future for all those who value the truths it expresses.

That's very close to my own view, I would say. The way I understand myself as a Catholic is as a participant in the dialogue the Church invites with its tradition, its history, and its current reality. And true dialogue requires the ability to dissent and the ability of all to accept correction.