I think an important question for teachers today is why intellectuals from the mid-twentieth century on have labored so hard to mystify and problematize truth. It’s a real question and I think there are true answers that are worth understanding. The answers are not immediately obvious though to those who have been subjected to years of ideological indoctrination. . . . → Read More: Truth and its envious imitators
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 Comments are closed  Ask, Character, Community-Centered, Desire, Explore, Governance, Narrative Environment, Readings, Transcendence  Evil, Modernity, narrative story, Transcendence, Truth McTeigue’s choice of state-run Christian fascism as the source of villainy seems itself more like propaganda than serious art. In brief, the main danger to freedom in Europe now is the same as it was when Orwell wrote: the drive of socialism to progressively increase the depth and breadth of its control. By making the danger out to be Christianity, McTeigue goes along with what the socialists have always said. . . . → Read More: Comparing V for Vendetta to 1984 The primary mission of dragons is simply to keep people from the truth, particularly those truths that lead most directly and surely to joy. This is mainly because dragons are not themselves happy, having once hoped joy could be theirs as an entitlement rather than as what it always has been and always will be–a complex balance requiring constant care. So now they wander the dark regions, trying to vindicate themselves by blocking the way of others to rather simple moments that unaccountably add up to eternity. . . . → Read More: The truth about dragons One comment - (Comments are closed) Character, Desire, Essay, Family, Metaphor, Narrative Environment, Teaching, Transcendence, What is worth admiring?, What is worth believing?, What is worth choosing? Courting, Evil, Gender, Love, Transcendence, Truth Each of us contends against systems, vast in their scale and deep in their effects, that organize us into patterns that often operate outside our field of vision. Just as geese fly south in the winter without understanding the urge they feel, so we often act for reasons we cannot name. As with magnetic force or gravity, we cannot see the forces that work on us and through us, though we can see their effects. They are manifest in patterns around us, and if we do not learn to see and evade some attractions, we are organized into contests that may not serve our best purposes. . . . → Read More: An ecology of war |
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