@D1vazhkb Można wyrosnąć na poczuciu zranienia, bycia osaczonym, wyśmiewanym, lecz pielęgnowanie tego uczucia poprzez żal(jakkolwiek emocjonalnie słuszne) często prowadzi do robienia innym dokładnie tego, co nam robiono.
We should have listened to David Foster Wallace’s warning back in 1997 when even Burger King was selling people burgers as an act of “rebellion”:
Postmodernism would lead to a slow cultural death through endless “irony, cynicism, irreverence.”
It’s time to break this spell.
A student can now complete modern education in the West without reading a single page of Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, or Milton.
This is how you erase a culture.
If schools and universities won't teach the Great Books of Western Civilization, we must form our own reading circles independently.
These are some of the texts we've read together at Athenaeum, or intend to cover soon. We are reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics right now.
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