27th April 2008

What Not To Be

Ann Althouse takes a look at the how-to reality show What Not to Wear and suggests an alternative:

I'd rather see a show where philosophers descend on a woman with a perfect exterior and rip into her for her intellectual and spiritual failings, put her on some kind of internally transformative regime, and turn her into a human being of substance. Can we get that?

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And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.—St John of Patmos

And in these days of Lent they shall each receive a book from the library, which they shall read straight through from the beginning.—St Benedict of Nursia