tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post5341966158891895334..comments2023-06-20T02:25:36.578-07:00Comments on The Scholar's Stage: Questing for TranscendenceT. Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-49724331968804257722019-07-12T22:10:33.405-07:002019-07-12T22:10:33.405-07:00Very remarkable essay. I can relate intensely as I...Very remarkable essay. I can relate intensely as I am an Army Officer who preparing to leave the Army. The few LDS Soldier I worked with were always excellent Soldiers and I know what you wrote about above is the foundation for that. <br /><br />My greatest fear isnt being able to support my family or be financially successful on the other side. I know I have good skills and I possess a strong Samnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-61490050290803923662019-05-14T11:17:00.165-07:002019-05-14T11:17:00.165-07:00Interesting- I'm going to have to think a bit ...Interesting- I'm going to have to think a bit on that Chesterton passage.<br /><br />I think of myself in an odd position in that regard- not especially well travelled, not overly cosmopolitan either by nature or intellectual preference or idealism, and familiar with the city I have lived in for 21 years, but not at all with much sense of community spirit, local allegiance, or sense of "random observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02348644823854777418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-39195657026962402572019-05-08T23:13:41.932-07:002019-05-08T23:13:41.932-07:00This post actually reminds me of Leo Strauss' ...This post actually reminds me of Leo Strauss' lecture on German Nihilism<br /><br />https://archive.org/stream/LeoStraussGermanNihilismIntegral1941/Leo%20Strauss%20-%20%27%27German%20Nihilism%27%27%20%5BIntegral%2C%201941%5D_djvu.txt<br /><br />No one could be satisfied with the post-war world. German liberal democ¬ <br />racy of all descriptions seemed to many people to be absolutely unable Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-10822699447194725792019-04-30T23:22:04.213-07:002019-04-30T23:22:04.213-07:00@sense:
re: PhD as a path of meaning--
I am remi...@sense:<br /><br />re: PhD as a path of meaning--<br /><br />I am reminded of <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/alablp/can_things_get_better_for_me/efdawb8/" rel="nofollow">this reddit comment:</a><br /><br /><i>Every job comes with a perks package. The perks all count towards your total comp, even the non monetary ones, like "status" or "flexible hours"T. Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-480087390811666182019-04-30T23:20:33.198-07:002019-04-30T23:20:33.198-07:00The rest of that essay is worth reading. Kipling w...<br />The rest of that essay is worth reading. Kipling was an interesting figure, though often what others had to say about him (see Orwell and Eliot's essays on him as well) was more interesting than what he had to say himself.<br /><br />Re: the larger question of using the 'Big 5' for political ends -- that the Big 5 do exist seems to me as much an established fact as psychology T. Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-55419092573774037622019-04-30T22:56:21.240-07:002019-04-30T22:56:21.240-07:00Random--
I suspect you will sympathize with G.K. ...Random--<br /><br />I suspect you will sympathize with G.K. Chesteron's diatribe against the well traveled Kipling:<br /><br />http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/heretics/ch3.html<br /><br /><i>"The globe-trotter lives in a smaller world than the peasant. He is always breathing, an air of locality. London is a place, to be compared to Chicago; Chicago is a place, to be compared to TimbuctooT. Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-88832216190152218102019-04-30T06:59:42.289-07:002019-04-30T06:59:42.289-07:00That was one of your more fascinating and moving r...That was one of your more fascinating and moving recent pieces. I will likely return to it.<br /><br />One thing that strikes me in your reference from Wilkinson- perhaps I have read too much into the passage but even so it seemed on the one hand insightful, as if recording a personal revelation of an alien world, and on the other hand still critical of it. Again, I am not familiar with him so I random observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02348644823854777418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-60653194469553725602019-04-29T09:41:30.638-07:002019-04-29T09:41:30.638-07:00There are two thoughts that came to my mind after ...There are two thoughts that came to my mind after reading this stimulating essay.<br /><br />One is of the movement in my Dutch home province of Friesland to translate American country music into the local minority language Frisian. Apparently there is enough cultural resonance between these distant parts of the world that the same themes you described also appeal to the musicians and listeners Sense Hofstedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17895331371474585613noreply@blogger.com