I continue the discussion with Sean Sullivan.

Sean and I debate the debate and get into things like: memes, the meaning crisis, how do we get moral truths, etc.

How and why to become a habitual reader-of-books. I talk about the meaning crisis and liquid modernity, and how reading long, paper books and having long conversations about them is a key antidote to all that.

0:00 Why are there stories?

2:58 Why pair bonding?

5:35 9700 BCE - Neolithic transformation

9:25 Ritualized myths around the fire

11:33 Chart on types of thinking

15:47 What is consciousness?

19:41 Merleau-Ponty's Schneider

24:15 A feel for the truth that exceeds analysis

28:12 Human projects as part of thought

0:00 AI vs embodied human knowing

5:20 Aragorn's ritualized story-telling

9:06 Aquinas' rationalist bent

11:53 Aquinas' ritualized story-telling in chant

0:00 Intro - What does it mean to be "college educated" in an AI age?

2:10 a) get addicted to reading, b) addicted to conversation

5:28 To marry religious with modern critical thought

10:06 Movie theater and ancient cave paintings

12:16 Courses to be offered

0:00 Mrs. Cheveley and "well-dressed women do."

3:50 Woman of fashion as mythopoeic generator

5:40 Secular re-enchantment (contra Eliot and Marx)

7:17 Continuum of enchantment

13:42 Vervaeke and relevance realization

17:00 In favor of expressive individualism and consumerism

22:33 Artist must express what is within

25:12 Tolkien on the myth-woven world

0:00 Am I just projecting?

5:30 Myth of the American dream

10:30 Consumer Artwork as it gives formation

20:00 Beautiful object vs Flat no-story object

29:55 Wilde's "Critic as Artist" and Consumer as Artist