Leopoldo Drago
3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2020–2022
1:19 · 202K views · Apr 22, 2014
The People's Front of Judea scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire of squabbling revolutionary factions.
HN invokes it as a joke about infighting among groups with nearly identical aims.
3 comments from Hacker News
Unless someone shows up who'll defend BenOp, I'm not looking further into it. As far as cursory surfing reveals (I have only been able to find a table of contents online whose chapter headings are not helpful) not only does Dreher not bother with the separatism of plain religions in the US, nor the experiences of other more heavily persecuted, more melaninly enabled, christian churches in the US, his doctrine doesn't accord with any of his[1] religions, nor does it, according to secondary criticism, seem to have been informed much by actual Benedictines[2]. Indeed, he's even been accused of rooting the whole project in reaction to Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015)[3]. [1] protestant, catholic, and orthodox, in that order. One is reminded of the person who is constantly looking for the New Shiny Library/Language instead of writing their app with the ecosystem they have at hand. (cue GKC quote on difficulties untried, Benedict on Sarabaites) For more similarities to open source schisms, consider [LINK] and replace the christian references with geeky projects such as "building a modern operating system", "immanentising the crypto eschaton", "welcoming our new GPT-N overlords", etc. this video [2] who are still around to ask. There's a non-benedictine abbey near me which celebrated its 1'500th birthday a while ago, and at least a handful of benedictine which are probably not many centuries younger. TIL Benedictines are more Marxist than Marx. From each according to their abi
I'm not yet sure how I feel about Gemini (I like inline links), but this post makes me think it's starting to gain some traction. It's past the "first they ignore it" and "then they laugh at it" phases and now into the "then they fight it" phase. Given that the mainstream stack we all are dependent on has foundational problems as OP acknowledges, language like "solutionism at its worst" feels counter-productive. Surely anything Gemini does or doesn't isn't as damaging as status quo. So why not let a thousand flowers bloom? Criticism like this feels like the People's Front of Judea ( this video )
Censorship and privacy are important issues. So is civilised online debate, and communities learning to work together in a nice way. I admire the people that put in time and energy to create a safer future for us all. Hope that this is not going to be taken the wrong way, but whenever I read such threads (and again - I respect all the people involved, their efforts and the importance of this issues) - I can't help but being reminded with this: this video