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A Defense for the Intellectual Life

The Catholic Man Show

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The Fool's Game

In many ways I view it as the pursuit of trivial information as opposed to the pursuit of essential knowledge. And what it does is it's this it's also akin to sloth in this way that oh, I'd rather put off what I'm actually the hard the thing I should be doing because I find it arduous. So he's he talks about how the studying at the expense at the expense of our spiritual life is a fool's game. It's something that people who enter into like deciding that they're going to start taking the intellectual life seriously run into a lot.

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