Thanks for the substack tip, Su. From one of his conversations ( I tried to find it yesterday without success), I picked up that he found some meaning in Taoist thinking as well. I recall he'd engaged in a delightful conversation with former eco-greenie, newbie Orthodox pilgrim Paul Kingsnorth, too, with commonality in seeing our place on the planet and in life in broader context, and acknowledging that there are limits in what we can 'have' and in our 'wants'. It seems that both those writers were, for a time, caught up in the excitement of the attention of the anti-Wokers, but that seems to have passed. Hard not to get caught up in the pull of "likes" to your writings, I think. I always thought that anglo guys' attacks on Wokeness was just mean-ness under a popularized meme, btw. Would be interested in your observations. Thanks again.
Hi Tim, well I think there's always a lot of flag-waving going on, whether it's for a country, an ideology or whatever. And of course, wherever there are flag-wavers, there are anti-flag-wavers. I try to go down rabbit holes that are a little higher up on the food chain.
McGilchrist is a quite brilliant humanist thinker. I'm following him on Substack now.
Thanks for the substack tip, Su. From one of his conversations ( I tried to find it yesterday without success), I picked up that he found some meaning in Taoist thinking as well. I recall he'd engaged in a delightful conversation with former eco-greenie, newbie Orthodox pilgrim Paul Kingsnorth, too, with commonality in seeing our place on the planet and in life in broader context, and acknowledging that there are limits in what we can 'have' and in our 'wants'. It seems that both those writers were, for a time, caught up in the excitement of the attention of the anti-Wokers, but that seems to have passed. Hard not to get caught up in the pull of "likes" to your writings, I think. I always thought that anglo guys' attacks on Wokeness was just mean-ness under a popularized meme, btw. Would be interested in your observations. Thanks again.
Hi Tim, well I think there's always a lot of flag-waving going on, whether it's for a country, an ideology or whatever. And of course, wherever there are flag-wavers, there are anti-flag-wavers. I try to go down rabbit holes that are a little higher up on the food chain.