Fascinating! Although I've always been a devourer of great books, about the same time period as your Provo Great Books Club I set myself the formal task of reading 50 books per year, covering psychology, archaeology, history, literature, poetry and current events. An important part of that has been remediating my abysmal public school education (it was already getting bad in the '70s when I was in high school) by reading the Greek and Roman classics, including Aristophanes The Birds, Plutarch's Lives, Xenophon's Conversations of Socrates, Ovid's Metamorphoses and more. The first thing you realize is that the intellectual achievements of that period in some ways have never been surpassed. Certainly puts our era in context as one of incredibly low intellectual tenor. Certainly fits with all civilizations in terminal decline, as Toynbee might have said.
Ah, coming from you, that means so much! I'll repeat, pomocon readers, that Transcriber B is one of the dissident heroines of our age. Methodically building up the source material of the real histories someday to be written about our fraught time. You gotta set aside a couple hours someday, and dig into her site.
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Thank you, dear Carl Eric Scott, I am honored by your comment. It is my hope that one day historians will do precisely that, sit down and read through the List of Transcripts. It is also my hope that some people will do so now, and in the near future, and may it help them wake up, or, if they're already awake, may these transcripts help them to see, they are not alone.
If you saw through the con, you are not at all alone, and you never were.
Fascinating! Although I've always been a devourer of great books, about the same time period as your Provo Great Books Club I set myself the formal task of reading 50 books per year, covering psychology, archaeology, history, literature, poetry and current events. An important part of that has been remediating my abysmal public school education (it was already getting bad in the '70s when I was in high school) by reading the Greek and Roman classics, including Aristophanes The Birds, Plutarch's Lives, Xenophon's Conversations of Socrates, Ovid's Metamorphoses and more. The first thing you realize is that the intellectual achievements of that period in some ways have never been surpassed. Certainly puts our era in context as one of incredibly low intellectual tenor. Certainly fits with all civilizations in terminal decline, as Toynbee might have said.
This is marvelous!
Ah, coming from you, that means so much! I'll repeat, pomocon readers, that Transcriber B is one of the dissident heroines of our age. Methodically building up the source material of the real histories someday to be written about our fraught time. You gotta set aside a couple hours someday, and dig into her site.
Thank you, dear Carl Eric Scott, I am honored by your comment. It is my hope that one day historians will do precisely that, sit down and read through the List of Transcripts. It is also my hope that some people will do so now, and in the near future, and may it help them wake up, or, if they're already awake, may these transcripts help them to see, they are not alone.
If you saw through the con, you are not at all alone, and you never were.