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To: Arrian

Did greater minds develop because of lesser freedoms? Do our freedoms encourage mental laziness?


23 posted on 08/01/2016 11:08:28 AM PDT by AmericanRobot
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To: AmericanRobot

Freedom is as much an attitude as it is a condition.
Perhaps the core Principle of Ageless Conservatism is that Man is governed by a moral order anchored by the Natural Law; a concept virtually extinct in our modern era.
The wise Greeks and Romans understood this, giving their creative impulse a rule which enhanced rather than restricted their creativity. We, bloated w/conceit, hubris and pretension, do not. As a consequence w/o boundaries we are lost; our so called “Art” being mute testament to that reality.
Following the massive hangover of the Great War, Auden described the interwar years as a “dark, forbidding and very low period”; an apt descriptive of our present time.


25 posted on 08/01/2016 3:19:37 PM PDT by Arrian (Nr Nancy Boys)
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