“Don’t forget: I’m a Saint Hubert’s Hound. You have nothing to teach me about heritage.”
I agitate as a Greek, this because I do everything as a Greek. I’ve been watching for Greek suppositions in my thinking, because of course they are entirely man-made – not natural. There is no natural way of being human – all human civilizations are abstract contrivances – but the Greek way – identifying, distinguishing, counting, dissecting, naming, mechanizing – is arguably the least natural, the most man-made.
I’m fine with that. I love being a Greek. I love the habits of mind everyone of The West inherits from them, and I love the efficiencies in my thinking resulting from them. They gifted us with the theories upon which the entire modern world is built, but before that they gave each one of us the gift of intellectual independence.
I’ve been thinking that adults need to be cultivating adults – teaching why political liberty, free enterprise and open discourse are highly to be prized. Add to that list a section on how to think like a Greek – for people who already think they do.
If we don’t prize our heritage, we have none. And the heritage we have is excellent – the best ever contrived by the mind of man.
In other news:
CNBC: Stronger mortgage demand points to September surge in home sales.
Housing Wire: Renter market picks up in suburbs.
City Journal: Taking Inflation Seriously: The Fed has taken a first step, but is it willing to go further?
The Volokh Conspiracy: The Exploitation of Young Minds: How indoctrination shortchanges K-12 students.
