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S4E60: The Building Blocks of Story with Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey

The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

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The Importance of Understanding Ourself

In the middle ages, one of the ways that they viewed the fall of mankind was that it was fall into a sinful self consciousness. Modernity thinks that the point of education is sort of to understand ourselves or see ourselves. That's another big lie about modernity literature is self expression. Art transcends the self. If all of it is a self expression, there's absolutely no need to read it. Why would you read it? Wow. It's not expression. The whole point is that it carries you up out of yourself. And we tend to think again, this is a very modern idea. But once you start realizing, for example, that Shakespeare writes fairy tales, it will

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