The Global Exclaimer
The Global Exclaimer explores culture, politics, philosophy, story, and faith for people who want to recover judgment, imagination, and truth.
We live in an age of reactions to reactions, commentary stacked on commentary, outrage curated for your particular tribe.
The Glob exists to slow things down.
Sometimes that means examining rhetoric and public life with older tools—Aristotle, Aquinas, history, literature. Sometimes it means telling a story. Sometimes it simply means pointing at something obvious that everyone has somehow stopped noticing.
Most of what appears here comes from three places: The Screaming Monkey’s Head (A tavern), the Theological Armory, and the Public Square.
What Shows Up Here?
The Screaming Monkey’s Head
A tavern kept by a man called Kindly Bob.
Those who wander far enough sometimes find its door. Inside, strange company gathers: philosophers, saints, soldiers, and travelers who are not entirely sure how they arrived.
Stories are told there.
Pull up a stool.
The Theological Armory
Ideas are weapons. Some are well forged. Many are blunt instruments.
The Theological Armory is where distinctions are sharpened—short lessons exploring things like:
belief vs faith
freedom vs license
knowledge vs certainty
Most of the Armory now lives on TikTok (sort of, if I ever make anymore) where these ideas are hammered into brief videos.
Think of it as intellectual weapons training.
The Public Square
Observations and essays on culture, rhetoric, and public life.
The modern world runs on reaction—commentary on commentary, outrage curated for your particular tribe. The Republic section tries to slow that down and ask better questions:
What story is being told?
What vision of the human person is assumed?
What habits of mind are being formed?
Sometimes the answer involves Aristotle. Sometimes it involves common sense. Sometime is requires shit-posting. Well, many times.
🎯 Who Is This For?
For anybody really. It helps if you have made your peace with the idea that there is objective truth. And for anyone who believes that such a thing is worth defending.
Also, for me.
I partly write to find out what I think. You’re welcome to come along.
🕵️ Who’s Behind It?
I’m Mr. Mark Connolly, OP, MTS - Why the Mr? So that you know I am not a Catholic Priest… Instead, I am a husband, father, grandfather, dilletante philosopher.
Some say I’m conservative. I say I like old things, old ideas that work. I’m not opposed to new. But some things are just what Frater Cowculus calls “axe handle technology.” If you’ve ever swung a well made axe for more than an hour, you know what that means.
Also I smoke cigars and drink whiskey. There is an old joke that goes, a Franciscan priest and a Jesuit priest are on break at a conference and meet outside for a smoke. The Franciscan says, “I asked my spiritual director if I could smoke while I’m praying, and he said, ‘No!’”. The Jesuit laughed and said, “I asked my spiritual director if I could pray while I’m smoking, and he said, ‘Of course.’”
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Welcome to The Glob.
The Global Exclaimer is a product of the Shadowy Global Organization known as The Hermetic Order Of The Ruminantia™. Frater Bovious, 9th Level Adept, works toward his own goals shrouded in mystery and confusion.
About this, nothing more may be said.
“The Eye is Open”™
Ψ THOOTR ☼™
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