Bailey's Library No. 1
Spirituality, Art, Dignity, and Your Mom
You need to read these superb essays!
I’m extremely pleased to recommend each of them to you, they are truly the best of the best.
Sam Kahn explores belief.
“Ancient peoples’ renderings of Zeus or Hera or whatever almost certainly weren’t meant to be depictions of literal flesh-and-blood deities anymore than anyone thinks that the paintings on the Sistine Chapel walls are what God actually looks like. The anthropomorphized pagan deities were representations of different types of energy, which means that they were representations of different ‘domains.’”
Clintavo explores the importance of art.
“I feel that we might be at the point that only Art can save humanity. Only art can unite us. Religions have failed. Politics has failed. Western culture has failed. Materialism has failed. Technology has failed.”
Richard Hanania explores human dignity.
“Forcing a cone on a creature’s head so it doesn’t harm itself is befitting a dog, but not a human being.”
Melissa Petrie explores oppression of our young.
“Generation Z has been beaten down. Socially stunted by lockdowns and video games and social media, these kids were taught that the worst thing that anyone can ever do is offend someone else, and that if someone dare make a joke, it better be about themselves.”
Mattias Desmet explores the soul.
“The soul is withdrawing from the world. And that phenomenon is related to our rationalistic worldview. In recent centuries, we have come to view humans as "organisms" without a soul, and now they are increasingly behaving that way.”
I hope that you enjoyed these essays as much as I did.
Thank you, Camrron, for your roundup! I'll check them out! I am finally having time to explore!