The new dialogue is out. If you care at all about traditional culture, scholarship, learning, history, you should see this one.
The Violence of the Old Gods
- COSMOLOGY: Zero Sum Identity
- ONTOLOGY: Drop in the Monos or Microcosm
- ETHOS: Taxonomies of otherness - Value of others relative or ultimate
- Blood, Soil, and Folk - a choice of cosmologies
- “Invoking the old gods is invoking the old cosmology”
- Christianity vs. paganism
Becoming the Renaissance Man
- What’s going on with Shakespeare - analogical rhetoric
- How to produce art that defies a set of instructions
- Truman Capote - writing from life - the appeal to human nature, tradition
- Aristotle: telos
Cultural Literacy & The Western Canon
- E.D. Hirsch - “Cultural Literacy”
- The Western Canon of Literature
- The canon as a place of freedom
- Is a common culture any longer definable?
- The straw man of common core
- The market driven teacher
- Polarization: Traditionalism, Conservatism, Imperialism
Related Links
- E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s "Cultural Literacy" in the 21st Century: Whate Every American Should Know - Defining common cultural literacy https://goo.gl/JQdkTs
- Opinion: Faking Cultural Literacy https://goo.gl/Ux3pQC
- Fiction vs. Non-Fiction - are modern standards creating a decline in cultural literacy https://goo.gl/1KcWcC
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- 3 Recovered Member Documents - January 16, 2019
- Member Dialogue: Dr. F Interviews Dark Journalist - November 27, 2018
- Halloween Dialogue is Out: Old Gods vs. Renaissance Man - October 31, 2018
- Dialogue 282 – Cultural Traditionalism vs. The Old Gods - October 31, 2018
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