I agree. What this book is trying to say is probably more relevant than ever, even if it is harder than ever for the modern mind to grasp. I think people's need for this information is motivating them (and myself) to push through the difficult writing.
Whew. Sometimes, impatience with the tedium of endless abstract babble, from yestercentury, is less about our abbreviated attention spans, today, & more a natural, Huck Finn style response ("aversion"!) to antiquated academic abstract babble with no root in the soil.
I take it you’re finding the book to contain too much babble? I completely understand that although I have now heard so many interesting writers referencing Owen Barfield that I am actually finding this book exciting. I think my interest in these specific ideas is overcoming my difficulty with the language.
@@MourningTalkShow Thanks for replying. Of course you're right to be enthused, & kind to offer this. Especially when a U.S. state political official has been out there explaining that the earth is flat & that her tv is always showing "globes everywhere, so a round earth is a NASA conspiracy like climate change," it's for sure handy to reflect on epistemology & how we know stuff, how to answer conspiracy theorists, & how to retain beginners mind like Socrates/ Suzuki etc, AND a sense of human doxa, like Aristotle honored , as we all need common ground on which to coordinate & cooperate to stop destroying life on earth (for 1 thing). So again, thanks!
This is excellent. Importamt to be recovered to modern day.
I agree. What this book is trying to say is probably more relevant than ever, even if it is harder than ever for the modern mind to grasp. I think people's need for this information is motivating them (and myself) to push through the difficult writing.
Whew. Sometimes, impatience with the tedium of endless abstract babble, from yestercentury, is less about our abbreviated attention spans, today, & more a natural, Huck Finn style response ("aversion"!) to antiquated academic abstract babble with no root in the soil.
I take it you’re finding the book to contain too much babble? I completely understand that although I have now heard so many interesting writers referencing Owen Barfield that I am actually finding this book exciting. I think my interest in these specific ideas is overcoming my difficulty with the language.
@@MourningTalkShow Thanks for replying. Of course you're right to be enthused, & kind to offer this. Especially when a U.S. state political official has been out there explaining that the earth is flat & that her tv is always showing "globes everywhere, so a round earth is a NASA conspiracy like climate change," it's for sure handy to reflect on epistemology & how we know stuff, how to answer conspiracy theorists, & how to retain beginners mind like Socrates/ Suzuki etc, AND a sense of human doxa, like Aristotle honored , as we all need common ground on which to coordinate & cooperate to stop destroying life on earth (for 1 thing). So again, thanks!