Piloted by its Oxford-educated host Spencer Klavan, Young Heretics explores the concepts of truth, beauty, and everything that makes Western culture great in the face of an increasingly hostile academia, media, and culture through which liberals guard the great works of the West behind lock and key to “protect” the next generation from the supposed racism, sexism, and homophobia of those that came before. Young Heretics, in direct contrast to this, provides an open forum for exploring, understanding, and enjoying the great works of Western literature.
With a PhD in Classics, Spencer Klavan is the assistant editor of The Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind at the Claremont Institute. Klavan's literary expertise is aided by his knowledge of many languages, including Ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. As a scholar who enjoys exploring how great works of literature provide valuable insights into today's world, Klavan hosts Young Heretics every Tuesday.
Burgess Meredith on The Twilight Zone: "Time enough at last!" But then he breaks his specs and loses focus? Linguists: what does "Carpe diem" mean - my Duncan family motto? Most say "Seize The Day", but others say a much more fascinating "Savor The Moment".
Thank you, Spencer (no relation). From the 5th through the 15th centuries there seems to have been an age of forgetting. Tragically, much literature was lost. Reaching back over that period to recover the lost culture of the ages is absolutely thrilling.
I know what you're thinking - what everybody is thinking these days. Doesn't that double-slit photon experiment entail a long hoped-for violation of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics? Or am I just chasing rainbows? Even the great Richard P. Feynman didn't understand it. A genuine 3rd Party based on magic/miracles instead of just interminable gridlock?
The end is fascinating. Parmenides the monist? How can there be any multiplicity if there has to be boundaries? Then I say I must be God and they mocked me. How can God be in Pain? Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death? The only thing worse than pain is despair and meaninglessness.
How did they prevent AI from hallucination? How sure are we that the text was read and not just made up by AI how are known to invent when they don’t know the answer?
"Jove," he cried, "grant that this my child may be even as myself, chief among the Trojans; let him be not less excellent in strength, and let him rule Ilius with his might. Then may one say of him as he comes from battle, 'The son is far better than the father.'"
Recent Bing article: "Consciousness is electromagnetic"? Of course, to some degree or another. And electromagnetism is timeless and eternal? I might have been a bit of a projectionist/street lamp interferer between ages 19-35. Friend Douglas ... stone cold rational sane eyewitness to it. But it was involuntary, so how could they construct any double-blind experiment?
Okay, I cannot get this across, even to great thinkers. From antiquity comes hundreds of examples of a very hard to see yet very common mono-myth that is being repeated again and again. Every time someone new comes along and becomes the next iteration of the "called hero" it looks like someone is either copying a story or making a prediction. The issue is we are seeing a repeating myth and think it's magical. I just put up a video on how the Bible repeats in all the Abrahamic materials which then shows it is simply man made, but is very tightly structured in word repeats. Come have a look. They were doing things with repeating words sequences that it takes the computer to see.
Moses is a monomyth. Jesus is a monomyth. Look how the Israelite's cross the Red Sea and spend 40 years in the desert. Jesus crossed water in a Baptism and spends 40 days in the desert. We have to grasp the hidden concept. These are crossing the threshold and then being in the belly of the Whale in Joseph Campbell's version on the template.
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The question from Mel reminds me of what Owen Barfield says in Poetic Diction. That earlier language is inherently more poetic, but as language advances it tends to become more detailed and specific which leads it to be less poetic.
Apparently this is actually what these people think. I just found out about a new documentary which claims that Abraham Lincoln was gay because he was close friends with a man and shared a bed with him.
This might be the best discussion I've heard on RU-vid in weeks! But 377 views after 8 days? What has become of humanity? Don't listen to Matthew! Please, cast ye more pearls before swine like us!!
If we even thought for one second about this idea in any other context, we would instantly recoil. Only because we have been exposed to and programmed by the Roman religion for ages does any version of this sound remotely good. And speaking of speech acts, the real one occurs with the author of the gospel campaign...an Alexandrian satirist. This was both metaphorical in the sense that it poked fun at the cruel fate of the Last Maccabean messiah and all the other rebels against Rome, and also literal as it alluded to something so traumatic that it had to be mentioned satirically, meaning canabalization as people starved under the Roman seige. This statement is both an active memory and psychological warfare.
Doesn't everything that exists communicate? I have read that there is complex communication between fungi. I think even "raw" material has a core essence of communication even if not a human type of language. It seems like absolutely everything material or energy is exchanging an experience. The perspective and experience of even one tiny ant could change everything just as much as that of an elephant or human, couldn't it?
"Josephus" had tons of aliases and did hide messages in his writing. There are some pretty diabolical jokes in there too! Even at the tomb scene of the gospels!
The Bible as we know it was formed during the warfare of the first century. The gospels in particular are a satiric psychological warfare campaign celebrating Rome's destruction of Jerusalem. So although Kabbalah and other symbolism in Jewish practice may be an art and not a science, there is a historic science that was once its point of origin.
For many "Christians", forgiveness is a cycle they knowingly abuse There is no forgiveness for sin after knowledge of the truth, only a fearful expectation of judgement and fury of fire(Hebrews 10:26) Ostracize the unrepentant sinners or forgive them them at your own peril
The best scene in the Iliad is Book V when Diomedes goes against Ares followed by the end of Book VI when Hector, his wife Andromache, and baby son Astynax are on the walls of the city together overlooking the battlefield. This is the last time Hector will see either.
Absolutely incredible episode! I’ll probably have to rewatch a few times to really get it haha but thank you! So interesting and you have a great ability to describe difficult concepts in simple terms
I know people get tired of hearing about the monomyth/template idea that seems to be shared throughout antiquity. That’s why the patterns. The characters in Greek myth as well as Biblical, Egyptian, Hindu, etc are all framed on two templates. 1. Creation. This template is made on an average life cycle of a human. 2. Mono-myth. This is the called hero. It represents any one of us as we tread back through our life to find inner peace. It's huge, but Genesis has a structured numbering system that serve as game pieces. The story plays out in the theater of the mind. I can help. I also need help. It's huge.
