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- Unmasking Campus Protests: There IS Indeed A Lot Of Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic Agitation On US Campuses; But Who's Paying For It--Both The Protest Groups And Their Legal Defenses?
- Germany Launches Hotline, Encouraging People To Report Family And Friends Who Hold "Conspiracy Theories" That Question "Democratic Institutions"
- Measles Op Escalates: The Atlantic Sends A Reporter To Target And Harass Texas Mennonite Community, And Father Of 6 Year Old Who Died
- Freedom To Perceive
- Le Chant Des Partisans
- Creating Parallel Societies – #SolutionsWatch
- Some Reflections On The Trump Administrations Punishments Of Student Protest Movements, And MAGA Fatigue
- Offsite Post: ‘French Culture and Resistance to Change’
- We Have Entirely Forgotten What It Means to Seek Salvation
- Interview 1936 – James Discusses REPORTAGE on Press For Truth
- The Trade Wars: You Are Not Prepared
- Offsite Post: ‘Conservative Virtue Signaling over Frederick Douglass Is a Big Mistake’
- Interview 1935 – ReArm Europe!!! (NWNW #583)
- James Corbett and Friends Deliver The White Pill! – #SolutionsWatch
- Offsite Post: ‘My Kid Sister Just Died’
- Interview 1934 – Decoding the Truman Show . . . with German Subtitles!
- Remembrances for March – 2025
- Offsite Post: ‘The Unbroken Line of New England Radicalism’
- The Great Fast Through the Ages: What Has Changed?
- Offsite Post: ‘Mainstreaming the Demonic: Megami Tensei’s Un-Orthodox Programming’
- A Homily on the Prodigal Son
- New Martyr John Popov: A Genius of Theology
- On the Prodigal Son
- The Western Rite
- The holy righteous Simeon the God-Receiver
- In memory of the martyred Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev
- Prayer From the Abyss: How Brokenness Became the Path to Grace
- Fyodor Dostoevsky's Meeting With Archbishop Nicholas Kasatkin the Missionary of Japan
- Healthy Food for Healthy Kids
- Latest Poll: More Than One-Third of Moderate Voters Do Not Trust Federal Health Agencies
- “Only Begotten Son” – Who Wrote the Hymn Sung at Every Liturgy?
- Children’s Health Defense CEO, Mary Holland, Esq. Statement on Pardon of Anthony Fauci
- Imprisoned for Christ: The Power of Suffering – Elder Sofian Boghiu
- Intemnițat pentru Hristos: Puterea suferinței – Pr. Sofian Boghiu
- Guided by the Star: The Magi’s Journey to Christ
- How Many Years Have Passed Since the Nativity of Christ?
- The Fundamentalism of “Political Correctness”
- New research suggests COVID-19 vaccinated individuals may ‘shed’ spike protein to unvaccinated women
- New CHD Book Uncovers the Mechanisms That Turn Medicine Deadly
- New CHD Book Presents Analysis of COVID Policy by Independent Scientists
- Actress Juliette Binoche Acclaims Saint Paisios the Athonite and Byzantine Iconography In Award Speech
- Movie: "Saint Chryse - A Ray of Light in the Years of Slavery" (2023)
- Signs to recognize the Antichrist – Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae
- Semnele pentru recunoașterea lui antihrist – Pr. Dumitru Stăniloae
- The "Policing" of our Lives (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
- “May Paradise consume you!” Elder Cleopas of Romania (†1998)
- “Mânca-v-ar raiul!” Cuviosul Cleopa de la Sihăstria (†1998)
- The Final Days of the Iconic Fashion Designer Billy Bo
- A hindu convert to Orthodoxy
- Un hindus convertit la Ortodoxie
- How to fight any passion
- Pr. Serghei Baranov – Cum să te lupți împotriva oricărei patimi
- The Catacomb Church (1991)
- The story of a repentant Sergian Priest!
- A brutal crush and a dark Ecclesiastical secret!
- Tortured for Orthodoxy: concerning Mother Joanna (†1998)
- 41 Testimonies: on Sergianism and the "ecclesial" status of the Soviet Church
- Hymn of love
- Imnul iubirii
- The Eternal Day
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- 101 carti de necitit intr-o viata
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- Evolutionism pe intelesul tuturor
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Scris de Ninel Ganea |
Miercuri, 05 Octombrie 2011 09:02 |
Intelecutalii neadaptati se simt parasiti, iar noi profeti in cinism anunta cu bucurie moartea cartilor si a literaturii. Se mai aud si cateva strigate de impotrivire, insa mai mult din reflexe si dependente dobandite in timp. Vinovatii de serviciu sunt considerati internetul, televizorul, vremurile, desi toata aceasta enumerare reprezinta o confuzie a cauzei cu simptomul. Cred ca toata problema “lipsei de cultura” este in buna masura prost pusa deoarece nu ia in discutie tema canonului literar. De pilda, daca intre doi autori, sa spunem la intamplare Charles Bukowski si Dr. Johnson, nu exista nicio diferenta calitativa si de natura, asa cum reiese de pilda din manualele de literatura universala, iar preferinta pentru unul dintre ei se face doar emotivist, atunci alegerea inevitabila pe termen mediu si lung este sa aleg televizorul, internetul, discoteca sau orice altceva imi satisface mai bine dorintele si preferintele imediate. Iar daca alegerea se va face pentru un autor modern (exceptand, bineinteles, nume ca T.S. Eliot in faza conservatoare sau altii, foarte putini, asemanatori) atunci lectura nu va fi decat o initire mai soft sau mai hard, dupa caz, in relativism cultural. Si, daca toate sunt la fel, totul devine foarte convenabil si consumerist in termeni de alegeri personale. Astfel problema cititului se leaga de disparitia unor standarde si criterii obiective, rationale prin care sa poate fi justificata natura superioara a acestei activitati. Asa ca intrebarea “de ce ar trebui sa citesc x si nu y” a devenit cu timpul “de ce ar trebui sa citesc, in general”, pentru ca ordinea naturala pe care se baza raspunsul la prima intrebare a fost demolata in ultimii 200 si ceva de ani. “ Paul Bourget tells us that as a young man, he stepped his mind in the works of Stendhal and Baudelaire and other modern literature of the same type. The authors of whom he speaks, so far from serving as a stimulus to his will and reason, merely invited him to retire into a corner and try strange experiments on his own emotional nature. Classical literature, at its best, does not much tend to induce in us a certain state of feelings, much less a certain state of nerves; it appeals rather to our higher reason and imagination – to those faculties which afford us an avenue of escape from ourselves, and enable us to become participants in the universal life” (Irving Babbitt – Literature and the American College) Iar dupa ce au predat o versiune progresivista a literaturii si istoriei, profesorii se mira inocent, dar inutil, ca rezultatul se traduce in disparitia cartilor... |