<2021-11-16T19:40:00.000Z> MarioGoretti@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz: I know you're a busy guy, especially with an expanding family to think about in addition to your intellectual pursuits and podcasting, but I have a project I'm trying to pull together that I think would be incomplete without your perspective. You're one of the most well-known intellectual voices in the community that grew out of the so-called Alt-Right after its fall, and you recently came to the Catholic faith. Your recent post on the Puritans indicates that despite your care in not bringing your religion up on most of your podcasts, it clearly plays a major role in how you look at the world.Do you have any opinions on how Catholics specifically should be approaching the current political state of the West? If you do, would you be interested in participating in a sort of round-table with some other Catholic voices from the broader "outer right" (for lack of a better term). I have gotten positive responses from Dark Enlightenment and Justin Stamm (of Why We Fight), and I was planning on approaching some others to get representatives of different subgroups of Catholic political dissent to ask the question I posed at the beginning of this paragraph.It's very much in the planning stages now, and it probably won't happen until Q1 2022. Would you be interested?
<2021-11-17T16:52:50.000Z> borzoi: I studied religion in college. When I say that I don't bring up my religion it's because my faith is private and I find "praying in the streets" to be gauche and literally against Christ's admonitions. But I've always enjoyed talking about religion from a more objective and academic standpoint as those are my priors.
<2021-11-17T16:55:08.000Z> borzoi: Yeah, I'd be interested in that but I want it made clear that I'm not there to speak for Catholics as I don't feel comfortable doing that, but as someone who has studied the religious phenomenon for half his life and who happens to be a Catholic with residual Orthodox tendencies
<2021-11-24T18:24:00.000Z> MarioGoretti@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz: I appreciate your concerns. The audience of this conversation will be pretty much exclusively Catholics; that is who it is aimed at, anyway. You have perspectives most Catholics don't get from their usual diet of commentators and authors, so please, by all means, we want you to speak as a Catholic who has a unique knowledge base to draw on to your fellow Catholics, not as the Catholic voice in a secular room representing the Catholic position. For the sake of full disclosure, I personally am interested in having your voice in this discussion because of your takes on the Puritan problem, which are a bit idiosyncratic, and because of your extensive commentary on man's relationship with modern technology, a real problem among Catholics especially. While we'll probably have to avoid extensive discussion of it, I think the way Catholics relate to the Papacy today could make a great deal more sense under a Baudrillardian lens. I will be circulating the questions I'd like us to use to guide our conversation in the next month to get feedback on what is useful and what opens us to rabbitholes. The goal is to have the roundtable around Candlemas. I hope with these clarifications we can still look forward to your participation! 
<2021-11-24T18:40:37.000Z> borzoi: Another reason I don't want to rep Catholicism is that we moved and literally the only church in this region that does Latin mass is a Sede church. Literally the only one. So we're technically sedevancatists now and I don't want to open up that can of worms because I'm not invested in these minute church politics and if people know I'm a Sede that's all they're going to talk about
<2021-11-24T18:41:52.000Z> borzoi: Catholics in communion with Rome would justifiably seethe if I'm seen as a rep
<2021-11-24T18:44:07.000Z> borzoi: How I can address your topic though is as someone who felt like a perpetual outsider in America because I am from white ethnic Catholic stock that really only integrated with my grandparents generation and it effectively killed their relationship to the church
<2021-11-24T18:46:56.000Z> borzoi: So I have this odd relationship with the Puritans that most Catholics here don't as they don't know what they want to be as Americans and they haven't reconciled that. I have tho. America is a Protestant construct and because I do feel like a foreigner I can see the nation as a Puritan one and I have begrudging respect for them even though I cannot be then
<2021-11-24T18:48:58.000Z> borzoi: The alienation becomes acute when you move to a place that is mostly Prot like I did and the only other Catholics are mostly Mexican. You feel the separation acutely. So if it's their country what does it mean for them and for us? That's the question that drives my thought
<2021-11-24T18:50:34.000Z> MarioGoretti@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz: At the risk of guessing correctly, you must be attending Bp. Dolan's parish. I'm no sede myself, but I hold him in high esteem. In any case, I don't think you need to say anything about where you attend. Personally I assumed you were going to a Novus Ordo parish, and I see no reason why the matter should come up. You're Catholic. Full stop. Honestly, it sounds like your family history isn't a great deal different than my own, or several Catholics I know with roots in the rustbelt. I remain convinced you have a lot to add to this discussion. The question of Catholic ethnic identity and the flaws of the EMJ approach are, I think, an inevitable question.
<2021-11-24T19:00:00.000Z> borzoi: I am in CMRI but no longer in the state I claimed to be
<2021-11-24T19:47:04.000Z> MarioGoretti@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz: Good to hear you've made yourself harder to find. I appreciate you trusting me enough to admit you're CMRI. I hope you and your family have a lovely Thanksgiving and begin Advent strong! I'll reach out again in a few weeks with the list of questions I'm assembling for your opinions.