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I just came from reading some junk at IA, which is a task in itself,
but maybe it's good to do from time to time because then it's a
bit more of a relief to come back to sanity.  

Once you're committed to a padded cell like IA you can't escape,
and you don't have any relief, so this is nice.

Anyway, it hit me:

This piece of (*) by Fr. Gleize is a lot like the recent work of Fr.
Themann at Winona, and his CDs that say, "Resistance to what?"

So, it's like they'd really like to say, "Resistance?  I don't see any
resistance!" But they can't do that, so they pick the next target
level one step down: "Resistance to what?"

Similarly, Fr. Gleize doesn't bother to go one step down.  He goes
straight for the jugular vein:  He denies (by implication) the
existence of the neo-Modernist Rome, by offering a long-winded
pile of nonsense that has a title which does all the work for him,
by asking, effectively,


Is There Any Such Thing As

A Neo-Modernist Rome, Or,

Is It Just A Figment Of The

Over-Active Imagination Of

The So-Called Resistance?




This is a product of Kantian sophistry, by which, when you can't
manage to cope with an intelligent argument, you simply resort
to the intellectually dishonest denial of the existence of the object
at hand.  

Examples:

You're standing on the beach with one of these loonies, and you
say, "Isn't that a beautiful sunset?"  And he replies, "Sunset?  What
sunset?  I don't see any sunset."  

Or, you're walking down a moonlit lane at night and you tell him,
"That full moon sure is impressive."  And his reply is, "Moon?  What
moon?  I don't see any moon."  

How do you have a conversation with someone like that?  

I tried to have one in a banquet hall that had a huge crystal
chandelier in the middle of the room hanging from the domed
ceiling.  He took the opportunity to use that as a device, to make
his point, by saying that it was brighter in here a while ago and
now it's not so bright -- what's going on?  And I turned to look
at the chandelier, saying, "They just used the dimmer switch and
reduced the voltage to the chandelier up there."  He replied,
"Chandelier?  What Chandelier?  I don't see any chandelier."