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Nov 6, 2022Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

Quite well reveals CRT and the collective woke desires. Given no understanding of human foibles and failures of the past, in fact denial of a past dooms their unobtainable future utopia. Why the learned cannot impart that to young adults is the real crime. They do know better but are ensconced in towers above the petty grind of life. Evil.

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Jan 17Liked by Lorenzo Warby

For whatever it's worth, I have never quite read a synopsis of my own understanding of intellectual history, and what follows from it, that captures it better than this essay does.

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Jan 18·edited Jan 18

I'm no scholar but listen to scholars such as D.C. Schindler and I think with nearly any philosopher there's standard interpretations and more revisionist takes that open up the story to be much richer. Hegel is famously impenetrable so perhaps he's like a Roscharch blot, but I gather he allows for agency within Geist, in a kind of co-creation. Don't ask me beyond that...

It all amounts to the same if the standard formulation is taught however...

Something fascinating about how thinkers ideas get taken up and percolated into the current thing. Like they pave an exercise in the imaginal, which reverberates down the track of time. Or perhaps they are just the early perceivers of what is coming (in the Geist?)

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