I love this conversation on tradition! Wendell Berry on traditional forms or ways of living (like marriage, religious tradition, etc): “To keep the form is an act of faith in possibility, not of the form, but of the life that is given to it; the form is a question addressed to life and time, which only life and time can answer.”
I think the conversation you have around 37:00 about post-modernism relates to your post two weeks ago about using constructivism to “tear the heart of meaning” out of any word we choose. If you accept a post-modern constructivism that says each individual creates the world for themselves out of their experiences and there is nothing universal I think that’s where we wind up with the toxic fringes you mention.
I love this conversation on tradition! Wendell Berry on traditional forms or ways of living (like marriage, religious tradition, etc): “To keep the form is an act of faith in possibility, not of the form, but of the life that is given to it; the form is a question addressed to life and time, which only life and time can answer.”
I think the conversation you have around 37:00 about post-modernism relates to your post two weeks ago about using constructivism to “tear the heart of meaning” out of any word we choose. If you accept a post-modern constructivism that says each individual creates the world for themselves out of their experiences and there is nothing universal I think that’s where we wind up with the toxic fringes you mention.