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Ep.50 On Benedict XVI -Reason, Freedom, Beauty, and the Intellectual Sources of Secularism and the New Evangelization

The Moral Imagination

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The Fifth Crisis of Beauty

When beauty is reduced, merely to the subjective, we've made it an absolute truth. This has profound effect on morality, on politics, and on liturgy. But also does something else. It rips the chest out of the person that dehumanizes the person. Each of us has a unique insight and experience into beauty,. into a piece of art, a piece of music, a landscape. If I'm listening to Box cello suites, and I'm not a cellist, okay, I'm extremely bad violinist. There will always be a need for love.

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When you have this direct connection, can you innovate with the feedback loops that creators get? Because, you know, again, back in the day, people would just put content out there and they'd probably get feedback from random people they meet in the street or they get fan mail or something. But in this day and age, feedback, you know, can be so much more real time, so much richer in content and also meaning. And when you have that direct connection, there's probably a lot more you can do. Has there been any thought on what that could look like? We
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think about that a lot and we think about how do we allow people to feel sort of cause and effect. You don't want to go too far. You don't want to get, you know, you don't want people to be so sort of like metrics and feedback addicted that they're just sort of like hill climbing. You want people to do the things they think are good. But when people love your work, when people respond to it, when they come to subscribe to you, you know, the best kind of feedback is somebody comes and pays you $100. That's better than any like. You know, if people are finding the thing that you're making resonating enough that they come and they give you the email address, they decide to spend their time with you and they spend your money with you. I think that's like kind of the most powerful thing. And then those people are the people you want to disproportionately accept feedback from. The people who are your core base that are there for you, the deeply understanding care about you, like your work, that means something. If those people criticize your work, that might mean something interesting to you. So we try to make sure that we correctly expose those sort of relationships. And people on social side feel they have a much more direct and real time relationship with the people that subscribe to them.
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I don't know if you've read the book Sapiens, but it
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has this idea that like maybe hunter gatherers
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were actually
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like a better, more better lifestyle, better kind of happiness.
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But like I got your civilizations still took over because they could just make more babies and they could like go to war and always overcome hunter gatherers civilization.

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