Activity

Currently reading: The Bible (KJV); Thucydides , “History of the Peloponnesian War”
Currently listening: G P Telemann (selected Sonatas, Sonatinas and Fantasias – Lacey, Gower, Mortensen ABC Classics); Dr Farrell’s vidchats and dialogues
Currently watching: “Lost in Space”, “Poirot”
Currently creating: knitted cardigan; full long skirt
Currently thinking: the only way to get back our high culture is, as Dr Farrell has said, by doing the hard work. What I’m doing is hard for me. Reading Thucydides is hard, as is The Bible (KJV), and dressmaking is hard. All of it is hard because you have to think, analyse, realise, and retain; and do it all over again and again.

When I come home from my brain-dead job, all I want to do is absolutely nothing but passively soak the pre-selected world view known as TV, and I go to bed frustrated, disillusioned and angry. My mind has lost another 100 cells to the long inertia, the sleep that they want you to be in every day, every night for the rest of your life. It’s funny how people defend it. When you throw in a line or two about the real world and what’s really going on, they call you a conspiracy theory nutcase. They don’t want to know about any of it. The sad reality is that they don’t want to think and take responsibility for their own impoverished lives. I can see myself heading that way. I’m now in the most unenviable position of living in two worlds, with two worldviews, and the scary thing is that the shallows are winning. That’s why I’m angry and frustrated and disillusioned. When I go home and tell my husband about the work politics and how ‘she said this’ and ‘he said that’, I’m actually living in the world I most despise. It all rapidly came to the surface of my thinking after listening to the last VidChat of January 2017 and to the last Dialogue about Art and High Culture. I stopped feeling, started thinking again, and compared notes with myself.

So I’ve taken heed of the warning. When I have grandchildren, I would like to pass to them real knowledge and real thinking, so they won’t go to bed frustrated, disillusioned and angry. And the only way to get back there from here, is by doing the hard work and purposely closing the door on the shallow, boring world view.

Rant over.