C.S. Lewis teases out a bit of the phenomenon of nostalgia in The Weight of Glory: “Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation.”
I could be one of the last people on this planet to not have watched a single episode of Stranger Things but this season's look at the so-called Satanic Panic has me intrigued. for another film about all things being broken, I would recommend The Black Phone, which is really about broken families and childhoods and all that carries with it. here's a link to an interview the director: https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/07/scott-derrickson-interview.html
All of the mapping analogies was laid out clearly in "The Guide to the Perplexed" by E.F. Schumacher -- not only a brilliant economist whom John Maynard Keynes actually plagiarized at one point -- but a scholar of Aquinas. It is a short books that everyone should read. People need to understand that every generation faces these questions and either fails individually and/or as a society. As a society we are failing because we no longer see with the eyes of the heart. The culture war would be greatly diminished if we did. There would be an awakening of the Spirit. It will come -- but at what cost this time. Rene Girard predicted the cost would be ever greater with each need to the learn the same lesson again because we choose increasingly to depend on our "rational" selves. The Tower of Babel. I take comfort knowing God is in charge.
C.S. Lewis teases out a bit of the phenomenon of nostalgia in The Weight of Glory: “Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation.”
I could be one of the last people on this planet to not have watched a single episode of Stranger Things but this season's look at the so-called Satanic Panic has me intrigued. for another film about all things being broken, I would recommend The Black Phone, which is really about broken families and childhoods and all that carries with it. here's a link to an interview the director: https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2022/07/scott-derrickson-interview.html
And here's Bob Dylan on things broken: https://youtu.be/TGKh9keJe0Y
All of the mapping analogies was laid out clearly in "The Guide to the Perplexed" by E.F. Schumacher -- not only a brilliant economist whom John Maynard Keynes actually plagiarized at one point -- but a scholar of Aquinas. It is a short books that everyone should read. People need to understand that every generation faces these questions and either fails individually and/or as a society. As a society we are failing because we no longer see with the eyes of the heart. The culture war would be greatly diminished if we did. There would be an awakening of the Spirit. It will come -- but at what cost this time. Rene Girard predicted the cost would be ever greater with each need to the learn the same lesson again because we choose increasingly to depend on our "rational" selves. The Tower of Babel. I take comfort knowing God is in charge.