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Entry: Buchanan & Lukacs--Getting Personal Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/buchanan_lukacs_getting_personal#28584 Post contents: Somewhat related to blasphemy and Chronicles: I cancelled my subscription to Chronicles after reading Fleming’s article “Violent Revolution” (June, 2006 I believe) in which he warned about “the spreading Virus of Islam” and expressed the hope that Mexicans could come to the realization that their real enemies were Muslims who “blaspheme against Our Lord and His Blessed Mother.” The lie and the demagogic incitement to violence triggered my Solzhenitsyn response from “Live not by Lies” a list of suggestions: among these get up and walk out and cancel subscriptions. That’s the limit of my approval of censorship. A while ago a writer on this site invoked the Islamo-viral topos and - unsurprisingly perhaps- also expressed the desire to incite violence. I no longer read that writer and was glad to see his article removed by the editor. I think magazines are nearly always an invitation to join “the educated rabble.” I agree with Mr. Stove about “Piss Christ” of course. That is not blasphemy in Bahktin’s sense but rather agitprop and leaden sarcasm actually identical to some of the anti-Christian art produced in the early years of the Soviet Union. Bahktin by the way did well without magazines in the depths of Soviet terror and oppression when he rediscovered Rabelais and Dostoyevsky, achieved cultural and spiritual liberation, and developed his deeply Christological literary criticism. Rabelais is anarchic intellectual fun, a goliardic apocalypse, beloved of Albert Jay Nock and Mikhail Bahktin simultaneously across continents and yes, I’m afraid Antonia White rough and tumble schoolgirls. What else? Anti-anticommunism and Solzhenitsyn? No, I’ll stop now I heard somewhere that Catholic bogging can be an occasion of sin. Sent at: 2008 12 02