I highly recommend the movie The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
You have to be alert and attentive to really enjoy this entertainment because it moves quickly through some very deep and heady dialog that covers the writer's journey from atheist, agnostic, theist and then Christian.
The beautiful aspect of the story is the illustration of what high-level academics used to be; and how related to that, how the topic of the supernatural was debated through robust critical thinking and objective reasoning. C.S. and his brother were sent to private tutor they nicknamed "The Knock" - for his method of knocking students that held positions not backed by evidence that they could convey with reason.
I was thinking about our modern higher-learning crybully snowflakes today... how they can get a professor canceled for upsetting them with the wrong triggering word.
I have said it before and will keep repeating it. Almost all of the ills of the West today are rooted in the corruption and degradation of the Western education system. Ironically it still educates the best and brightest scientists and engineers that go on to make the world a better place. But the corruption and degradation has been expanding into those disciplines too. It is my opinion that saving the West from itself will require an uprising of against the education system to demand reforms back to what it should be. Increased acceptance and belief in God will be a natural byproduct of those improvements... and that too will help heal the West.
Good discussion, but everything Rauch found corrupt and wrong about The Big Steal hoax could also be said about the Russiagate hoax. Of course Mr. Rauch--a fellow at Team Blue's Brookings Institute--is sadly oblivious to this.
While I generally agree with him, I think he made certain assumptions. I don't think it makes sense to view what happened around the lab leak as inherently a positive thing. Even if I'm glad that people got there eventually, I don't think it should've been shut down as a conversation, which it was. There was simultaneously an attempt to shut down online discussion while making it the only way people can communicate. I think we would've reacted differently if we had more open discussion around so many aspects of the pandemic.
I highly recommend the movie The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
You have to be alert and attentive to really enjoy this entertainment because it moves quickly through some very deep and heady dialog that covers the writer's journey from atheist, agnostic, theist and then Christian.
The beautiful aspect of the story is the illustration of what high-level academics used to be; and how related to that, how the topic of the supernatural was debated through robust critical thinking and objective reasoning. C.S. and his brother were sent to private tutor they nicknamed "The Knock" - for his method of knocking students that held positions not backed by evidence that they could convey with reason.
I was thinking about our modern higher-learning crybully snowflakes today... how they can get a professor canceled for upsetting them with the wrong triggering word.
I have said it before and will keep repeating it. Almost all of the ills of the West today are rooted in the corruption and degradation of the Western education system. Ironically it still educates the best and brightest scientists and engineers that go on to make the world a better place. But the corruption and degradation has been expanding into those disciplines too. It is my opinion that saving the West from itself will require an uprising of against the education system to demand reforms back to what it should be. Increased acceptance and belief in God will be a natural byproduct of those improvements... and that too will help heal the West.
I got 6 minutes in before I had to turn it off.
Interesting, level headed voice. Thank you very much!
Excellent, a must listen
I thoroughly enjoyed this discussion. These kinds of talks are the reason I enjoy your substack so much.
Good discussion, but everything Rauch found corrupt and wrong about The Big Steal hoax could also be said about the Russiagate hoax. Of course Mr. Rauch--a fellow at Team Blue's Brookings Institute--is sadly oblivious to this.
While I generally agree with him, I think he made certain assumptions. I don't think it makes sense to view what happened around the lab leak as inherently a positive thing. Even if I'm glad that people got there eventually, I don't think it should've been shut down as a conversation, which it was. There was simultaneously an attempt to shut down online discussion while making it the only way people can communicate. I think we would've reacted differently if we had more open discussion around so many aspects of the pandemic.