THE WAR ON BEAUTY

This is actually a post on how English speakers have lost the ability to understand classic literary works because their vocabulary has shrunk so much and it is so important to tether ourselves to the wealth of the past, and to learn how to think. We can't let the connection to history, to the past, to great literature, to be severed.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PMSKc0rVLsk

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true. Open an old book like I said and

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you will see how evident this is. Not

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only do we have such a more limited

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vocabulary but also the store of

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cultural

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information and literary knowledge is so

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much diminished. For example, when I

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read these authors like Carlile or

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Schiller or anyone really, they knew the

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Bible backwards and forwards and could

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quote it from memory, all parts of it.

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They've all read Dante. They've all read

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every bit of Shakespeare and so on.

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There was a really strong tradition, a

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literary tradition that served as a link

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reaching far back into the past and was

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carried forward as a way for people to

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reason through their present-day

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condition and state of affairs. The

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chain was all through reading and they

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read, they thought, they reasoned and

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they wrote. And the depth of those men's

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thoughts like some of the writers that I

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mentioned in this video can only be

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grasped and understood through reading

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their work ourselves but also through

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reading the works that they read. That

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we can retain the very basic skills to

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understand what our forebears wrote is

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so deeply critical. The past contains

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a vast amount of the beauty that we have

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on planet earth and it's all contained

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in the written word and it is our tether

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to an incredibly deep well of knowledge.

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If we ourselves stop reading then not

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only do we lose that connection but also

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our own ability to think, read and write

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for ourselves. And these three

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activities, just like truth, goodness,

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and beauty, are all inextricably

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connected. You lose one and you probably

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lose the other two. We cannot let them

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break history and we cannot let them

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sever that incredibly important cord.

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So, I thank you so much for watching. I

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hope that you please like, comment, and

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subscribe. And as always, I'm going to

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link all of these articles down below so

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that you can read them for yourselves

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because they are fascinating and very

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educational on this topic.

RED LIGHT THERAPY

 

I have been dealing with respiratory problems for many many years.  Was once diagnosed with asthma, though no one in my family ever had it.

I'd get bronchitis each year until I studied the therapy with pairs of magnets called Medical Biomagnetism.  

I still use it, though I no longer treat patients because I would spend a minimum of two hours treating each patient and often three.  I got too tired after (2005-2023) 18 years of practising.

It would help me for a week, then the chest congestion came back.

But for other things like the rare times I've woken up with acid reflux, or indigestion, or heaviness in the head, or just to take care of my eyesight, the magnets are absolutely wonderful.

However, a year after cataract surgery I've developed macular degeneration, which is that I see wavy lines with my right eye (it was always my stronger eye). And after the surgeries I had to use reading glasses. I could see far, but not near.  And I had always used glasses for nearsightedness but always managed to read without my glasses.

To cut to the chase, I saw a video by the podcasters Clayton and Natali Morris, of Redacted, one of my go-to's. Clayton was interviewing a young man who has a line of red light therapy products.  He said that using red light had improved his vision, to his surprise.

I looked into it and ordered a panel.

I urge you to research into the benefits of RLT.

I got one of those, up there.

In Chile we have a local version of Amazon called Mercadolibre.cl

It's great, and the panel I bought is quite affordable.  On Amazon, naturally, they've got all kinds and high-end.  Full body.

But with what I have I can improve my skin, help my eyes, reduce my respiratory congestion, relieve achey joints and raise my spirits.  Oh, and stimulate hair growth so I don't keep worsening my widow's peak.

I am not providing medical advice here.  Just sharing information on how light and color therapy are known to benefit health.

RLT has been around since the 1960s, used mainly by cosmetologist professionals.

Here's a pic of my panel (sorry about the mess):

I use it much closer to me on that chair.

A friend commented:  "It's like a movie set!"

Really easy to assemble.

Research why it works. There are lots of videos on YT.

Don't watch the ones that put the fear of God in you. 

They are disinformation hacks.

TARTARIA, ANYONE?

 

Here is an interesting architecture mystery that arose from images people saw in pre-1880 mirrors:

The Last Antique Dealer Who Sold Pre-1880 Mirrors — What Customers Reported Seeing in Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAC994TScoQ

What is my take.  True, ancient structures like the Parthenon, the pyramids, even very old city buildings don't seem to have been built for five-foot-tall people.

It's notable how the theme of buried or otherwise hidden memory runs through so many areas of human experience right now.

Modern and postmodern man has indeed been focused on present and future.  

Maybe it's why this culture values youth so much, because youth is oblivious of memory.

Youth is credulous even though it pretends to be skeptical.  Youth is often know-it-all.

The old are dinosaurs, antiques. They've made all the mistakes. They are irrelevant. 

The fact that the Boomers are now old people makes them, not just passé, but worse: scapegoats.

It's true, I think, that Boomers have gotten decadent and out of touch.  They've become what they criticized so much about their own parents.  Most of them sold out.

And it's funny how, in the States, each generation has got a nickname.  Millenials, Gen X, Gen Z, etc.

Weird.

They're domesticated that day.  Categorized neatly.

Of course, before all that, the media/CIA concocted Beatniks (the Beat Generation, its proper name) and the Hippies.

Then came the Me Generation (1970s).

Then the Yuppies (1980s).

What about the rest of the World?

In Chile, at least, they go nameless. It's cultural trends that get named.  La Nueva Canción Chilena. El Estallido Social.  

As for this "Urban Legend" of pre-1880 mirrors that reveal visions of Tartaria: maybe, could be.

It's one more riveting tale that keeps us inside the house, noses glued to our screens.

Who can argue that humans live such short lives and the past is a Mystery back of our grandparents, the few things we know about them?