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The General Eclectic


Jul 14, 2022

Rod and Kale meetup to discuss all things TGE after Rod's travel sagas land him back in England and then Budapest.
 
Topics covered, in order:
- Oxford and Cambridge adventures; no more atheists
- WEIRD folks are the outliers who must contend with the robustness of belief
- insufficiency of pure materialism
- snuff with Cardinal Muller
- English Christianity, Malcolm Guite and Martin Shaw's conversion to the "true myth"
- liturgies and Christian dreaming
- Thin Spaces and Thin Experiences
- "re-wilding" of Christianity
- necessity for metaphysics and the insufficiency of mere politics
- policy disputes as a substitute for real talk about what we are for
- importance of attention
- lost America and the return of the 80's
- dignity done: Tiara Mack and performative senatorial twerking
- divorce and the Dark Wood
 
LINKS:
Read and subscribe to Kale's new substack 
Read and subscribe to Rod's substack 
Mary Harrington on Satanism