According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind…. If you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, ‘How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove their oar in, or patronize me, or show off?’ The point is that each person’s pride is in competition with everyone else’s pride. It is because I wanted to be the big noise at the party that I am so annoyed at someone else being the big noise. Two of a trade never agree. Now what you want to get clear is that Pride is ESSENTIALLY competitive - is competitive by its very nature - while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak, by accident. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. That is why I say that Pride is essentially competitive in a way the other vices are not.
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released May 18, 2018
Vital Weekly 1134 -
It is no secret that I make a lot of mistakes when I write. Should all 4282 subscribers to Vital Weekly be willing to donate 1 euro a month to read my words I'd be happy to stop any half-hiding garage sales, donate all material to an archive, review online releases and hire someone to proof read these words. Until then (and we all know that’s when hell also freezes over) you have to live with the occasional, regular mistakes. And/or take advantage of those mistakes as Katja Institute did. When I reviewed 'This Age' in Vital Weekly 1076 I wrote mistakenly somewhere in the review 'Time Age'. It is something the Katjas liked and now used it for a triple CDR release, with some 150 minutes of drone music. As before Katja Institute plays long form pieces of drone music, but what seems to be a change is that is now less static and minimal but more fluid and yet still minimal. Something seems to have changed along the lines, maybe a change of software, or something else in the way of technology, but there is a subtle back and forth shifting in this music, which works very well. It is of course quite a sit, all of this music, but sit back, pick up a book and make a coffee (maybe in a different order) and let this music immerse you. Maybe it's a pity that it is spread out over three discs, yet one could always go to the Bandcamp version and listen from there uninterrupted, but alas a bit of physical movement every now and then is good. Seven pieces we have here, ranging from three to fifty-three minutes and it all makes a very coherent listen; the bit of spoken word at the end of 'They Attack You They yell They Scream They Act Like Zombies' (titles on Bandcamp, none on the cover, as usual with Katja Institute releases) seemed like an odd-ball; I thought a website piped up on top the music I was playing but it is part of the music and once you get used to it, it makes perfect sense. It neatly breaks with the steady stream of sounds, but. like said, it works very well. This is another great release. (FdW)
Warped, sample-driven songs from this Egyptian DJ combines everything from old soul to Tuvan Throat Singing, to head-spinning results. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 15, 2016
