DO 93 - LM Sacasas w/ Ashley Colby
Doomer Optimism
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Is It Possible at a Society Wide Level to Recover the Language of the Good?
The power of words to shape how we think about things is an essential part of illage's work. The desire to receive existence as a kind of gift not as something to be managed is also key, he says. If we understand our own lives society and friendships are all aspects of our experience as projects to be managed risks to be mitigated. Wendell Berry has a lovely line as we live the given life not the planned in one of his Sabbath poems. i'll add one more just element to this um which is that the deep structure of conviviality involves this recognition of life as a gift.
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