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Kenneth Clark's Civilisation 06 Protest and Communication

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Is there still hope? Protest and communication; the trick is that one comes with the other if one wants to make any headway at all. Aks me the name of any intellectual, philosopher or thinker for our recent times I'd probably come up with Christopher Hitchens, Rowan Williams, Richard Dawkins, Anne Applebaum, William Dalrymple, Martha Nussbaum, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Piketty, Jordan Peterson, and yes, even Waldemar Januszczak. Especially this episode of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation can make one think so much anew, is even highly inspirational at times, and renews any waning hope for mankind. Men like the influential monk Erasmus of Rotterdam or the successful politician, with a highly moderating voice, Michel de Montaigne, high-end cultural achievements like the Plantin printing press establishment at Antwerpen or William Shakespeare's mindblowing thoughts immortalized in prose, and so on. All of this easy access to reason is mostly locked away in vaults of simple neglect nowadays, and that's a shame. Unlikely but possible, one indeed never knows, it may inspire even one person now anew
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AbbeyP · 70-79, F
If you put your hope in people like Dawkins and Hitchens then there is no hope it all.
val70 · 51-55
@AbbeyP True but it's up to the individual to find that out. Heard of the discussions between Richard Dawkins and Rowan Williams before? [media=https://youtu.be/POBKL0zHZyc]
AbbeyP · 70-79, F
Yes and the discussions between John Lennex and Richard Dawkins. The problem is that Dawkins got a lot of publicity but the whole thing was just one-sided. I doknow young people though who having read Dawkins investigated the other side and became Christians. So they said, ‘should I thank God for Dawkins?” 😂@val70
val70 · 51-55
@AbbeyP Each time that I see Richard Dawkins I see a frightened man. That saddens me and I wish that today's society was gentlier already towards all
AbbeyP · 70-79, F
The other great thinker to listen to and read his book, ‘The language of God’ is Dr Francis Collins the geneticist who headed up the human genome project round the world.’ @AbbeyP @val70
val70 · 51-55
@AbbeyP Like I told some theology student talking about the blood and the world and such, perhaps it's better to follow Montaigne in finding God's beauty in the smallest of things