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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 7, Part 1

Book 7 of REPUBLIC is arguably the most well-known, important and foundational texts in all of Western letters, and no educated person can remain unfamiliar with its teachings. The book opens with the famous Allegory of the Cave, which Plato says is about the education of the soul, its journey from ignorance to knowledge. It must be added to the former allegories of the Line and the Sun to complete the picture of Plato's metaphysics and epistemology:
"This entire allegory ... you may now append ... to the previous argument; the prison-house [Cave] is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world.... [M]y opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of [the] good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally either in public or private life must have his eye fixed."
Education, Socrates asserts, is a conversion process, of turning away from what is less real toward that which is more real, toward the transcendent eternal and unchanging realm of the Forms. Our guardians, then, must be taught to "see" the truth of transcendent reality by an ascending process of understanding, culminating in the discipline of dialectic, philosophical reasoning which allows us to "achieve a unified vision." In this way our true guardians will rule the city in the best manner possible, being able to model True Being here in the imperfect realm of becoming. We must, then, discover the disciplines that will lead our philosophers toward Being. It turns out that paradox, those disciplines and experiences that strike our understanding with oppositions that cause us to explore the ideals that lay beyond the mixed-up realm of becoming.
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Puritan Poetry: ”As Weary Pilgrim Now at Rest,” by Anne Bradstreet

In this season of Thanksgiving, we remember those famous Pilgrims who dared to leave comfort, home, family and the safe structures of society to establish a new life in a new world. This month we celebrate and remember the courage, love and devotion, the strength and sacrifice that founded our country.
In this first poem, "As Weary Pilgrim Now at Rest," by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) the poet recognizes the difficulty of life in the New World and the blessedness of hope not, as often supposed, in eternal rest, but in the delight of new life in Christ, filled to overflowing with joy in God's presence and service.
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George Orwell‘s 1984, Part 2, Chapter 1, Part 2

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 6, Part 4

REPUBLIC, book 6 begins what may be considered the most famous and important passages in all of Western philosophy. Plato begins to systematically present his theory of the Forms in a series of notable analogies, beginning with the Sun and concluding chapter 6 with the Line.
The chapter begins by picking up the discussion that ended chapter 5 on the true philosophers, those who "know best," those who are able to see "the thing itself." It should be clear, Socrates says, that philosophers, defined as "those who are able to grasp what is always the same in all respects," should rule in our city. But, Adeimantus objects, real philosophers, not Socrates' ideal philosophers, are either wicked or useless. Socrates agrees, but explains that only the proper combination of nature and nurture can produce the true philosopher, and it is only in a society like the Kallipolis that the true philosophical nature can be properly nurtured into its greatest potential for good. Such true philosophers will be able to "see" the Good Itself, the Form of the Good, which is like the Sun, illuminating what is and nourishing all that is good. This analogy of the sun leads directly to the analogy of the line, which graphically displays the epistemological insights we began to unfold at the conclusion of chapter 5, and we are told to think of human knowledge as lying upon a continuum between ignorance and true understanding, of which only the philosopher is capable.
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Booker T Washington, Post Atlanta Exposition Speech, from UP FROM SLAVERY

Our centerpiece this month is Booker T Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech, both historical and controversial. In this excerpt from his book, Up From Slavery, Washington speaks of events following this speech. Enjoy!
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Paul Laurence Dunbar‘s ”The Haunted Oak”

In history this month we read Booker T. Washington's famous "Atlanta Exposition Speech" and selections from his autobiography UP FROM SLAVERY to show the context. In reciprocity, then, the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar contextualizes Washington's words, and is in turn contextualized by them.
Lynchings in the South were peaking as Booker T Washington gave his speech to the Atlanta Exposition. Thus we find in the juxtaposition of poem and speech the real and the ideal, man's most evil deeds and highest aspirations. "The Haunted Oak" is curiously dispassionate, as it is the judgment of nature itself in the old oak tree upon man's inhumanity to man. The final stanzas disclose the psychological horrors of the perpetrator's "debt," and the violent desecration of nature and of nature's God:
And ever the judge rides by, rides by,
   And goes to hunt the deer,
And ever another rides his soul
   In the guise of a mortal fear.
 
And ever the man he rides me hard,
   And never a night stays he;
For I feel his curse as a haunted bough,
   On the trunk of a haunted tree.
 
"And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel, thy brother .... What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground."
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George Orwell‘s 1984, Part 2, Chapter 1, part 1

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 6, Part 3

REPUBLIC, book 6 begins what may be considered the most famous and important passages in all of Western philosophy. Plato begins to systematically present his theory of the Forms in a series of notable analogies, beginning with the Sun and concluding chapter 6 with the Line.
The chapter begins by picking up the discussion that ended chapter 5 on the true philosophers, those who "know best," those who are able to see "the thing itself." It should be clear, Socrates says, that philosophers, defined as "those who are able to grasp what is always the same in all respects," should rule in our city. But, Adeimantus objects, real philosophers, not Socrates' ideal philosophers, are either wicked or useless. Socrates agrees, but explains that only the proper combination of nature and nurture can produce the true philosopher, and it is only in a society like the Kallipolis that the true philosophical nature can be properly nurtured into its greatest potential for good. Such true philosophers will be able to "see" the Good Itself, the Form of the Good, which is like the Sun, illuminating what is and nourishing all that is good. This analogy of the sun leads directly to the analogy of the line, which graphically displays the epistemological insights we began to unfold at the conclusion of chapter 5, and we are told to think of human knowledge as lying upon a continuum between ignorance and true understanding, of which only the philosopher is capable.
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Booker T Washington‘s ”Atlanta Exposition Speech”

Booker T Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was born a slave in 1856, and the story of his indefatigable drive to education and accomplishment, as presented in his autobiography, UP FROM SLAVERY, is both harrowing and inspiring. On September 18th, 1895 he delivered this historic (and later controversial) speech at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, designed to display the economic progress of the post-Civil War South. The choice of Washington as speaker was intended to show similar progress in race-relations.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar‘s ”The Debt” & ”We Wear The Mask”

In history this month we read Booker T. Washington's famous "Atlanta Exposition Speech" and selections from his autobiography UP FROM SLAVERY to show the context. In reciprocity, then, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar contextualizes Washington's words, and is in turn contextualized by them.
In "The Debt" Dunbar contemplates the choices and compromises we make in life, and the consequences we bear for those choices. It is short, powerful and profound.
In "We Wear The Mask" the poet speaks both particularly of the black experience in post-slavery America and universally of human dissimulation in social structure. I cannot help but draw attention to the connection in these two poems of the term "debt."
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile
 
The debts we must pay are our own and others, but in ALL cases, personal and social, it is human guile, dissimulation itself, the great lie, which exacts our souls as the remorseless creditor. As Solzhenitsyn said, the line between good and evil runs through the heart of every human being.
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George Orwell‘s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 8, Part 3

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 6, Part 2

REPUBLIC, book 6 begins what may be considered the most famous and important passages in all of Western philosophy. Plato begins to systematically present his theory of the Forms in a series of notable analogies, beginning with the Sun and concluding chapter 6 with the Line.
The chapter begins by picking up the discussion that ended chapter 5 on the true philosophers, those who "know best," those who are able to see "the thing itself." It should be clear, Socrates says, that philosophers, defined as "those who are able to grasp what is always the same in all respects," should rule in our city. But, Adeimantus objects, real philosophers, not Socrates' ideal philosophers, are either wicked or useless. Socrates agrees, but explains that only the proper combination of nature and nurture can produce the true philosopher, and it is only in a society like the Kallipolis that the true philosophical nature can be properly nurtured into its greatest potential for good. Such true philosophers will be able to "see" the Good Itself, the Form of the Good, which is like the Sun, illuminating what is and nourishing all that is good. This analogy of the sun leads directly to the analogy of the line, which graphically displays the epistemological insights we began to unfold at the conclusion of chapter 5, and we are told to think of human knowledge as lying upon a continuum between ignorance and true understanding, of which only the philosopher is capable.
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Booker T Washington, Intro to Atlanta Speech, UP FROM SLAVERY

Our centerpiece this month is Booker T Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech, both historical and controversial. In this excerpt from his book, Up From Slavery, Washington gives the introductory context of this speech. Enjoy!
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Paul Laurence Dunbar‘s ”Paradox”

In history this month we read Booker T. Washington's famous "Atlanta Exposition Speech" and selections from his autobiography UP FROM SLAVERY to show the context. In reciprocity, then, the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar contextualizes Washington's words, and is in turn contextualized by them.
Dunbar's poem, "Paradox," echoes well themes from THE CHRISTIAN ATHEIST podcast, "where faith and reason fuse in the Incarnation." Dunbar here speaks of the contradictory realities in which we all exist, paradoxes that invoke the beauty and tragedy of life, both of which are real in the most robust of senses. Although Dunbar was not particularly religious (as I understand), I cannot avoid the resonances with the Incarnation itself in such lines as these:
I am thy priest and thy poet,I am thy serf and thy king;I cure the tears of the heartsick,When I come near they shall sing.
Enjoy the lyric beauty and the thoughtful spiritual challenge in these verses!
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George Orwell‘s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 8, Part 2

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 6, Part 1

REPUBLIC, book 6 begins what may be considered the most famous and important passages in all of Western philosophy. Plato begins to systematically present his theory of the Forms in a series of notable analogies, beginning with the Sun and concluding chapter 6 with the Line.
The chapter begins by picking up the discussion that ended chapter 5 on the true philosophers, those who "know best," those who are able to see "the thing itself." It should be clear, Socrates says, that philosophers, defined as "those who are able to grasp what is always the same in all respects," should rule in our city. But, Adeimantus objects, real philosophers, not Socrates' ideal philosophers, are either wicked or useless. Socrates agrees, but explains that only the proper combination of nature and nurture can produce the true philosopher, and it is only in a society like the Kallipolis that the true philosophical nature can be properly nurtured into its greatest potential for good. Such true philosophers will be able to "see" the Good Itself, the Form of the Good, which is like the Sun, illuminating what is and nourishing all that is good. This analogy of the sun leads directly to the analogy of the line, which graphically displays the epistemological insights we began to unfold at the conclusion of chapter 5, and we are told to think of human knowledge as lying upon a continuum between ignorance and true understanding, of which only the philosopher is capable.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar‘s ”The Cornstalk Fiddle”

In history this month we read Booker T. Washington's famous "Atlanta Exposition Speech" and selections from his autobiography UP FROM SLAVERY to show the context. In reciprocity, then, the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar contextualizes Washington's words, and is in turn contextualized by them.
Dunbar's delightful poem, "The Cornstalk Fiddle," must warm the hearts  of country folk everywhere, with its recall of inventive genius in "making do" with what nature provides in order to share in the communal joys of life and love. One can almost feel the cool autumn evening and the excitement of potential love moving in time to the cornstalk fiddle, evoked by these homespun verses.
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George Orwell‘s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 8, Part 1

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 5, Part 4

Book 5 of Plato's Republic is devoted to two primary subjects, "family" life and a discussion of the nature of the rulers in our "good city" (the Kallipolis). Socrates is prevented from discussing the types of city and individual soul - of which there are 4 bad, wrong types and one good form - by the demand that he explain his comment he made in Book 4 about having women and children "in common" in the Kallipolis. About 2/3 of this book is taken up answering this question. In this discussion he makes the revolutionary proposals that 1) women should be able to act in any capacity within the city, even as guardians and rulers, and that therefore they must receive the same education and opportunities as the men. 2) That children should not know their biological parents and vice versa. All children are to be cared for and raised as the common children of everyone in the city. This proposal is meant to sever the "natural" ties of parenthood that cause them to favor their own over everyone else's, and thus to strengthen the unity of the city. As we saw earlier, Plato reasoned that property (what is one's own) causes division, and that therefore measures must be taken to prevent such division by holding all things "in common," a clear endorsement of early communistic practice. 3) Sexual couplings must be regulated by the state in such a way as to enhance the genetics of the "herd," the city's populace, so a system of rigged lottery must be introduced to sanction the fruitful sexual couplings, what he calls "marriages," of the best men with the best women, and discourage "promiscuity." Unfit children are to be disposed of, as was common with the Greeks in that age.
The next question is the obvious one, could such a society really come into existence? Provided, Socrates says, that we understand that practice never truly equals the perfection of theory, it can. And the way in which it could come into being is if PHILOSOPHERS ruled. The remainder of Book 5, then, is taken up with the beginning portrait of what true philosophers are like. In this discussion Plato's theory of the Forms, to be more clearly developed later, begins to show itself.

T. S. Eliot‘s ”Ash Wednesday”

Following up on the apotheosis of Eliot's pre-conversion to Christianity in his epochal poem, THE WASTELAND, his post-conversion work strikes an entirely new tone. The Rt Reverend Lord Harries wrote this:
"T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” was the voice of a disillusioned generation and reflected a world in disarray. Then in 1928 Eliot announced to a startled world, and the disapproval of his contemporaries, that his general point of view could be described as ‘classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglo-catholic in religion.’ The previous year he had been baptised behind closed doors in Finstock Church, near Oxford."
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Like today, for a cultural thought-leader to announce a perspective that is Christian and/or conservative is to ostracize oneself from approval and acceptance by the cultural elite, especially the academic cultural elite, of which Eliot was an established member.
As such, his first major post-conversion poem, "Ash Wednesday," was both a departure and a rebirth of Eliot's poetic genius. I hope you love it, as I do!
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George Orwell‘s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 7, Part 2

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 5, Part 3

Book 5 of Plato's Republic is devoted to two primary subjects, "family" life and a discussion of the nature of the rulers in our "good city" (the Kallipolis). Socrates is prevented from discussing the types of city and individual soul - of which there are 4 bad, wrong types and one good form - by the demand that he explain his comment he made in Book 4 about having women and children "in common" in the Kallipolis. About 2/3 of this book is taken up answering this question. In this discussion he makes the revolutionary proposals that 1) women should be able to act in any capacity within the city, even as guardians and rulers, and that therefore they must receive the same education and opportunities as the men. 2) That children should not know their biological parents and vice versa. All children are to be cared for and raised as the common children of everyone in the city. This proposal is meant to sever the "natural" ties of parenthood that cause them to favor their own over everyone else's, and thus to strengthen the unity of the city. As we saw earlier, Plato reasoned that property (what is one's own) causes division, and that therefore measures must be taken to prevent such division by holding all things "in common," a clear endorsement of early communistic practice. 3) Sexual couplings must be regulated by the state in such a way as to enhance the genetics of the "herd," the city's populace, so a system of rigged lottery must be introduced to sanction the fruitful sexual couplings, what he calls "marriages," of the best men with the best women, and discourage "promiscuity." Unfit children are to be disposed of, as was common with the Greeks in that age.
The next question is the obvious one, could such a society really come into existence? Provided, Socrates says, that we understand that practice never truly equals the perfection of theory, it can. And the way in which it could come into being is if PHILOSOPHERS ruled. The remainder of Book 5, then, is taken up with the beginning portrait of what true philosophers are like. In this discussion Plato's theory of the Forms, to be more clearly developed later, begins to show itself.

T. S. Eliot‘s THE WASTELAND, Part 2

Arguably the iconic poem of the twentieth century (published in 1922), and certainly Eliot's most well-known. It is also one of the most difficult poems in the English language, and will only reward those willing to study its difficulty. It is a poem filled with poetic, historical, mythological and various esoteric multi-cultural allusions, structures and content. It is the capstone of Eliot's pre-conversion poetry, displaying the emptiness of meaning in a world bereft of transcendence. If you end this poem with a dry mouth, a dry mind, and nothing but numbness, lack of emotion, you've captured Eliot's objective correlative, I think. The final words, "Shanti, shanti, shanti," the Sanskrit "peace," end the poem on a note, not of hope, but of resignation.
Let us just say that THE WASTELAND is most notable for its contrast with the hope, joy and life to be found in Eliot's post-conversion work!
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George Orwell‘s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 7, Part 1

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
Enjoy ... and be vigilant!
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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 5, Part 2

Book 5 of Plato's Republic is devoted to two primary subjects, "family" life and a discussion of the nature of the rulers in our "good city" (the Kallipolis). Socrates is prevented from discussing the types of city and individual soul - of which there are 4 bad, wrong types and one good form - by the demand that he explain his comment he made in Book 4 about having women and children "in common" in the Kallipolis. About 2/3 of this book is taken up answering this question. In this discussion he makes the revolutionary proposals that 1) women should be able to act in any capacity within the city, even as guardians and rulers, and that therefore they must receive the same education and opportunities as the men. 2) That children should not know their biological parents and vice versa. All children are to be cared for and raised as the common children of everyone in the city. This proposal is meant to sever the "natural" ties of parenthood that cause them to favor their own over everyone else's, and thus to strengthen the unity of the city. As we saw earlier, Plato reasoned that property (what is one's own) causes division, and that therefore measures must be taken to prevent such division by holding all things "in common," a clear endorsement of early communistic practice. 3) Sexual couplings must be regulated by the state in such a way as to enhance the genetics of the "herd," the city's populace, so a system of rigged lottery must be introduced to sanction the fruitful sexual couplings, what he calls "marriages," of the best men with the best women, and discourage "promiscuity." Unfit children are to be disposed of, as was common with the Greeks in that age.
The next question is the obvious one, could such a society really come into existence? Provided, Socrates says, that we understand that practice never truly equals the perfection of theory, it can. And the way in which it could come into being is if PHILOSOPHERS ruled. The remainder of Book 5, then, is taken up with the beginning portrait of what true philosophers are like. In this discussion Plato's theory of the Forms, to be more clearly developed later, begins to show itself.

Thomas Paine‘s COMMON SENSE, Part 8

Leading up to the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made persuasive arguments for American Independence from Great Britain and for republican government. It is one of the most effective political tracts in history. First published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, it took the country by storm, turning the tide of opinion in the colonies. It also made Thomas Paine a central figure in the colonies, catapulting him to fame. He followed Common Sense with The American Crisis, a series of 13 essays written in the years following the Declaration of Independence (1776-1783). This is part 8, our completion of this essay. Enjoy!
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T. S. Eliot‘s THE WASTELAND, Part 1

Arguably the iconic poem of the twentieth century (published in 1922), and certainly Eliot's most well-known. It is also one of the most difficult poems in the English language, and will only reward those willing to study its difficulty. It is a poem filled with poetic, historical, mythological and various esoteric multi-cultural allusions, structures and content. It is the capstone of Eliot's pre-conversion poetry, displaying the emptiness of meaning in a world bereft of transcendence. If you end this poem with a dry mouth, a dry mind, and nothing but numbness, lack of emotion, you've captured Eliot's objective correlative, I think. The final words, "Shanti, shanti, shanti," the Sanskrit "peace," end the poem on a note, not of hope, but of resignation.
Let us just say that THE WASTELAND is most notable for its contrast with the hope, joy and life to be found in Eliot's post-conversion work!
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George Orwell‘s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 6

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
Enjoy ... and be vigilant!
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Plato‘s REPUBLIC, Book 5, Part 1

Book 5 of Plato's Republic is devoted to two primary subjects, "family" life and a discussion of the nature of the rulers in our "good city" (the Kallipolis). Socrates is prevented from discussing the types of city and individual soul - of which there are 4 bad, wrong types and one good form - by the demand that he explain his comment he made in Book 4 about having women and children "in common" in the Kallipolis. About 2/3 of this book is taken up answering this question. In this discussion he makes the revolutionary proposals that 1) women should be able to act in any capacity within the city, even as guardians and rulers, and that therefore they must receive the same education and opportunities as the men. 2) That children should not know their biological parents and vice versa. All children are to be cared for and raised as the common children of everyone in the city. This proposal is meant to sever the "natural" ties of parenthood that cause them to favor their own over everyone else's, and thus to strengthen the unity of the city. As we saw earlier, Plato reasoned that property (what is one's own) causes division, and that therefore measures must be taken to prevent such division by holding all things "in common," a clear endorsement of early communistic practice. 3) Sexual couplings must be regulated by the state in such a way as to enhance the genetics of the "herd," the city's populace, so a system of rigged lottery must be introduced to sanction the fruitful sexual couplings, what he calls "marriages," of the best men with the best women, and discourage "promiscuity." Unfit children are to be disposed of, as was common with the Greeks in that age.
The next question is the obvious one, could such a society really come into existence? Provided, Socrates says, that we understand that practice never truly equals the perfection of theory, it can. And the way in which it could come into being is if PHILOSOPHERS ruled. The remainder of Book 5, then, is taken up with the beginning portrait of what true philosophers are like. In this discussion Plato's theory of the Forms, to be more clearly developed later, begins to show itself.

Thomas Paine‘s COMMON SENSE, Part 7

Leading up to the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made persuasive arguments for American Independence from Great Britain and for republican government. It is one of the most effective political tracts in history. First published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, it took the country by storm, turning the tide of opinion in the colonies. It also made Thomas Paine a central figure in the colonies, catapulting him to fame. He followed Common Sense with The American Crisis, a series of 13 essays written in the years following the Declaration of Independence (1776-1783). This is part 7. Enjoy!
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T. S. Eliot‘s ”Gerontion”

A pre-conversion work of Eliot, "Gerontion" expresses the same world-weary disillusionment of The Wasteland and "The Hollow Men," but from a much more personal perspective. The title means "little old man," and the poem was written in 1919 when the treaty of Versailles was signed, ending WWI. Like all of Eliot's poetry, it is difficult to nail down due to its learned allusions, imagery and language. It is, however, much more intuitively grasped than The Wasteland.
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George Orwell’s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 5, part 2

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato’s REPUBLIC, Book 4, part 4

Plato's Republic is arguably THE foundational text of the Western tradition in philosophy. Book four presents the completion of the kallipolis, the good city, and this means that it must possess the four virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation and justice. Finding wisdom in the rulers, courage in the guardian auxiliary class (the defenders of the city), and moderation as an agreement among everyone as to who rules, by process of elimination justice, the object of our inquiry, must be whatever is left over. Justice, it turns out, is just the proper division of labor amongst the three parts of the populace: 1) the rulers, 2) the guardians and 3) the common workers, or producers. Does this account of the virtues writ large, though, correspond to a similar structure in the individual soul? We conclude that it does. This is the the fourth installment of Book 4. Enjoy!
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Thomas Paine’s COMMON SENSE, Part 6

Leading up to the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made persuasive arguments for American Independence from Great Britain and for republican government. It is one of the most effective political tracts in history. First published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, it took the country by storm, turning the tide of opinion in the colonies. It also made Thomas Paine a central figure in the colonies, catapulting him to fame. He followed Common Sense with The American Crisis, a series of 13 essays written in the years following the Declaration of Independence (1776-1783). This is part 4. Enjoy!
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T S Eliot ”Preludes”

T. S. Eliot's meteoric rise to fame as the early twentieth-century's pre-eminent poet on the basis of a handful of poems and a few essays remains one of the great success stories of all time in my estimation. The poems this month are all part of Eliot's pre-conversion to Christianity phase. They are characterized by an idiosyncratic poetic language and imagery that is all his own. I have come to love Eliot's poetry, especially his later work (and especially Four Quartets). It is shocking, world-weary and wise, and deeply informed by the spirit of the age without being overtaken by it. Enjoy!
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George Orwell’s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 5, Part 1

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
Enjoy ... and be vigilant!
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Plato’s REPUBLIC, Book 4, part 3

Plato's Republic is arguably THE foundational text of the Western tradition in philosophy. Book four presents the completion of the kallipolis, the good city, and this means that it must possess the four virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation and justice. Finding wisdom in the rulers, courage in the guardian auxiliary class (the defenders of the city), and moderation as an agreement among everyone as to who rules, by process of elimination justice, the object of our inquiry, must be whatever is left over. Justice, it turns out, is just the proper division of labor amongst the three parts of the populace: 1) the rulers, 2) the guardians and 3) the common workers, or producers. Does this account of the virtues writ large, though, correspond to a similar structure in the individual soul? We conclude that it does. This is the the third installment of Book 4. Enjoy!
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Thomas Paine’s COMMON SENSE, Part 5

Leading up to the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made persuasive arguments for American Independence from Great Britain and for republican government. It is one of the most effective political tracts in history. First published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, it took the country by storm, turning the tide of opinion in the colonies. It also made Thomas Paine a central figure in the colonies, catapulting him to fame. He followed Common Sense with The American Crisis, a series of 13 essays written in the years following the Declaration of Independence (1776-1783). This is part 5. Enjoy!
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T S Eliot ”Rhapsody on A Windy Night”

T. S. Eliot's meteoric rise to fame as the early twentieth-century's pre-eminent poet on the basis of a handful of poems and a few essays remains one of the great success stories of all time in my estimation. The poems this month are all part of Eliot's pre-conversion to Christianity phase. They are characterized by an idiosyncratic poetic language and imagery that is all his own. I have come to love Eliot's poetry, especially his later work (and especially Four Quartets). It is shocking, world-weary and wise, and deeply informed by the spirit of the age without being overtaken by it. Enjoy!
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George Orwell’s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 4, Part 2

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato’s REPUBLIC, Book 4, part 2

Plato's Republic is arguably THE foundational text of the Western tradition in philosophy. Book four presents the completion of the kallipolis, the good city, and this means that it must possess the four virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation and justice. Finding wisdom in the rulers, courage in the guardian auxiliary class (the defenders of the city), and moderation as an agreement among everyone as to who rules, by process of elimination justice, the object of our inquiry, must be whatever is left over. Justice, it turns out, is just the proper division of labor amongst the three parts of the populace: 1) the rulers, 2) the guardians and 3) the common workers, or producers. Does this account of the virtues writ large, though, correspond to a similar structure in the individual soul? We conclude that it does. This is the the second installment of Book 4. Enjoy!
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Thomas Paine’s COMMON SENSE, Part 4

Leading up to the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made persuasive arguments for American Independence from Great Britain and for republican government. It is one of the most effective political tracts in history. First published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, it took the country by storm, turning the tide of opinion in the colonies. It also made Thomas Paine a central figure in the colonies, catapulting him to fame. He followed Common Sense with The American Crisis, a series of 13 essays written in the years following the Declaration of Independence (1776-1783). This is part 4. Enjoy!
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T S Eliot ”Portrait of A Lady”

T. S. Eliot's meteoric rise to fame as the early twentieth-century's pre-eminent poet on the basis of a handful of poems and a few essays remains one of the great success stories of all time in my estimation. The poems this month are all part of Eliot's pre-conversion to Christianity phase. They are characterized by an idiosyncratic poetic language and imagery that is all his own. I have come to love Eliot's poetry, especially his later work (and especially Four Quartets). It is shocking, world-weary and wise, and deeply informed by the spirit of the age without being overtaken by it. Enjoy!
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George Orwell’s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 4, part 1

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences!
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Plato’s REPUBLIC, Book 4, part 1

Plato's Republic is arguably THE foundational text of the Western tradition in philosophy. Book four presents the completion of the kallipolis, the good city, and this means that it must possess the four virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation and justice. Finding wisdom in the rulers, courage in the guardian auxiliary class (the defenders of the city), and moderation as an agreement among everyone as to who rules, by process of elimination justice, the object of our inquiry, must be whatever is left over. Justice, it turns out, is just the proper division of labor amongst the three parts of the populace: 1) the rulers, 2) the guardians and 3) the common workers, or producers. Does this account of the virtues writ large, though, correspond to a similar structure in the individual soul? We conclude that it does. This is the the first installment of Book 4. Enjoy!
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Thomas Paine’s COMMON SENSE, Part 3

Leading up to the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made persuasive arguments for American Independence from Great Britain and for republican government. It is one of the most effective political tracts in history. First published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, it took the country by storm, turning the tide of opinion in the colonies. It also made Thomas Paine a central figure in the colonies, catapulting him to fame. He followed Common Sense with The American Crisis, a series of 13 essays written in the years following the Declaration of Independence (1776-1783). This is part 3. Enjoy!
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T S Eliot ”The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”

T. S. Eliot's meteoric rise to fame as the early twentieth-century's pre-eminent poet on the basis of a handful of poems and a few essays remains one of the great success stories of all time in my estimation. The poems this month are all part of Eliot's pre-conversion to Christianity phase. They are characterized by an idiosyncratic poetic language and imagery that is all his own. I have come to love Eliot's poetry, especially his later work (and especially Four Quartets). It is shocking, world-weary and wise, and deeply informed by the spirit of the age without being overtaken by it. Enjoy!
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George Orwell’s 1984, Part 1, Chapter 3

George Orwell's 1984 is classic dystopian literature, but it is also psychologically astute and prescient concerning the totalitarian tendencies of the 20th century's ideologies. With the rise of 21st century Wokism currently in vogue, its message is a clarion call for the present, too. Let us beware of embracing rather than opposing the lies that are being forced upon us, lest we find ourselves, too, living in a world in which we must guard our very thoughts, lest they betray us. Hold fast to the truth, no matter the consequences! This is the full chapter 3.
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Plato’s REPUBLIC, Book 3, Part 4

Plato's Republic is arguably THE foundational text of the Western tradition in philosophy. Book Three continues to discuss the educational system of 'guardians' of the hypothetical city we are constructing, the "good city" (in Greek kalipolis). We continue to discuss the official censorship required to be sure that our guardians are educated in the proper way. Once this is concluded, we discuss which of the guardians should rule, and how they are to be chosen from the other guardians, and finally that the guardians are to live a communistic existence without private property, wealth, or even living space. This is the the final installment of Book 3. Enjoy!
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Thomas Paine’s COMMON SENSE, Part 2

Leading up to the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's Common Sense made persuasive arguments for American Independence from Great Britain and for republican government. It is one of the most effective political tracts in history. First published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, it took the country by storm, turning the tide of opinion in the colonies. It also made Thomas Paine a central figure in the colonies, catapulting him to fame. He followed Common Sense with The American Crisis, a series of 13 essays written in the years following the Declaration of Independence (1776-1783). This is part 2. Enjoy!
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