tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688572333584836648.post5954812451966435778..comments2017-01-22T04:35:30.854-05:00Comments on A City in Speech: America is rhetoricSebastianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06634050682365973346noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688572333584836648.post-76592745399338807202010-07-13T22:42:06.098-04:002010-07-13T22:42:06.098-04:00I also preferred the old look, but I think this on...I also preferred the old look, but I think this one is more seasonal. The image (like the previous) is drawn from Jung's remarkable Red Book.Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06634050682365973346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688572333584836648.post-71759194122431270972010-07-12T22:32:18.947-04:002010-07-12T22:32:18.947-04:00Personally, I liked the old look more. I was just ...Personally, I liked the old look more. I was just reading The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams and some of the things you mention in response to Adam's comment, in particular the breakdown between actual things and ideas, resounded with the theme of the book. Good stuff, Charles Williams.<br /><br />-ClipstockClipstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08885774459080813040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688572333584836648.post-25311149190941133592010-07-11T21:22:50.054-04:002010-07-11T21:22:50.054-04:00Hello Adam,
It seems clear to me that America wil...Hello Adam,<br /><br />It seems clear to me that America will be destroyed if our political language is fully lost. Perhaps this is a commonplace. But since America is an ideal—a city on a hill, a city in speech—there is the <i>possibility</i> for a deep recovery of the meaning of our political language and fundamental self-understanding in the event that the apparent difference between "actual" things and ideas breaks down. This sort of shared mystical experience (I think perhaps World War II was such a time), like the journey to the chapel in <i>The Waste Land</i>, can reverse the decay of a political society, at least for a time.<br /><br />But as you can no doubt imagine, if this momentary apocalypse does not occur, or if it does occur and no one is receptive to it, then the society will collapse all the faster. Everything hinges on <i>kairos</i>, if it comes.Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06634050682365973346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5688572333584836648.post-4638922153762478672010-07-11T15:54:09.249-04:002010-07-11T15:54:09.249-04:00I like this post (and the new look) very much. I w...I like this post (and the new look) very much. I would like to comment/question further and will later perhaps.<br /><br />"The mystery of a society created by rhetoric, which can be its salvation and its destruction, is the distance that usually seems to exist between what is ideal and what is 'actual.'"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com