The Decline of Canon Literacy Ft Nick Land (1)

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• 00:00:00

  that having a coherent sense of the structure of ancient history is now an exception and it's now rare like why would it's only because of a certain cultural inertia that people assume that that's going to be there i think the comical meme about like how many times a day do you think about the roman empire i mean…

• 00:08:25

  Secularism of this public education system has been aligned with a general attempt to reinstate the notion of cultural canonicity, the classics. I mean, if only because taken seriously, often people say, well, you know, we want. People to read the Bible and we want them ultimately to be able to read it in Hebrew…

• 00:12:29

  Human is marching in lockstep, right. So I, you know, I'm not, I'm not trying to diminish what was done, but I am saying that there's like a, a potential new era here and we don't really know what it is yet. Yes, that seems very plausible to me, um, because there's a process that all Western societies went through…

• 00:19:55

  And when you don't have to be its vehicle, then, you know, you lose a lot of the intensity of connection with it. Yes. So I have a funny story that goes well with this whole topic, you know, because you say, you know, they don't, the parents don't even know what's being taught there. And of course, at the, before I…

• 00:23:49

  It's a thing about the education system itself. And we can even say at the international level at this point. And so, when I said that Benjamin Sudebaker was like, he heard me say it. And then like, it was like, I think it was a couple of days later at the retreat, he was sitting there and he goes, do some people…

• 00:31:02

  of of math intense and extraordinary math as part of your classical education right um but then that's to be then contrasted with the fact that you then have as i say i mean substantially a sort of fantasy structure that oh no look germans aren't doing that you know they have mathematics as a modern discipline…

• 00:40:17

  parrot stage they just want to they want to hear you say things and they want to say those things themselves they're super impressionable something that apparently people in some public schools today have forgotten you know they think that you can just trust children to know who they are or whatever um you know that's…

• 00:49:31

  me to and uh i think you should do it like this is not just an advertisement this is like real life guys like this is this is what matters and i'm not saying this to a giant audience i'm not saying this to um anyone or or no one i'm saying this to you and i'm and i'm saying it to an audience that i've been very…