T.S. Eliot’s Praise for Privilege | Episode XVI
New Humanists
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Hitchens and Eliot in This Piece
Elisabeth Kohn: Eliot sounds like a nineteenth century romantic, in terms of lauding folk culture. She says there's no way to naively re engineer minority culture that neglects popular folk culture. And so this is how he closes, h'l hear echoes of hitchens and jode in this.Kohn: We are making ready the ground upon which future nomads will park their tanks or arvis or whatever. But you just think of these magnificent english cathedrals, and when you look at yourself and your own culture and your own civilization in comparison to the civilization that built and maintained those doorways and arches, you're an ant. Youre tiny.
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