It's been a while since I've blogged about anything written by Freddie deBoer, whose Substack I do read semi-regularly. Since some of his writing intersects with thoughts I've been having about the state of criticism and laments about the state of the arts and the state of criticism I'm goingto go a bit long-form this weekend.
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Fix Your Family Systems: Breaking Toxic Patterns Through Biblical Wisdom is here, from the guy who said back in 1998 that he was a confrontational guy and not some pansy-ass therapist
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1998/07/generation/
Politics
July/August 1998 Issue
GENERATION
A look inside
fundamentalism’s answer to MTV: the postmodern church.
...
By setting themselves
up against their elders, postmoderns are ingeniously adding an
anti-establishment spirit to their movement. “I really preach; it’s not just
three points to a better self-esteem,” Driscoll says. “Megachurches have
perfect services with perfect lighting. We’re a friggin’ mess.” Driscoll
delivers his sermons largely off-the- cuff, and refuses to follow a
point-by-point outline like most pastors at megachurches do. “I’m very
confrontational,” he says, “not some pansy-ass therapist.”
...
“Some of us haven’t
given ourselves over to the American Dream yet,” Driscoll says into the
microphone. “How do we make sure we don’t become victims of what harmed us—
parents who weren’t around because they were too busy making money so we could
go on vacations and look like a family?” The phones are dead.
...
A lot can change in 27 years.
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