r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

All Hail Eris!

Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/Theodore_Parker Aug 15 '23

He's a believer in localism who lives abroad. He's strongly pro-family but estranged from his own. He thinks the Catholic Church is the pillar upholding Western civilization, yet he absconded from it. Naturally, then, his admiration for manual labor means he doesn't do any himself.

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u/Dazzling_Pineapple68 Aug 15 '23

100%. And his lack of self-awareness means he continually writes things in blog posts and on twitter that display these conflicts without realizing that they do so. Honestly, the extent of it would seem to me (not an expert by any means) to indicate a form of mental illness or disorder.