“Myth Is a Theorem About the Nature of Reality” Robert Bringhurst is known for writing the best-ever work on typography and book design. Here he talks about the trans-human function of myth, and about being an independent ex-university intellectual.https://www.guernicamag.com/myth-is-a-theorem-about-the-nature-of-reality/ …
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Replying to @Meaningness
I heard about him in the context of mythopoetry much before I knew about his fame in the post-Helvetican world. That's because I chanced upon this
book in a sale and fell in love with the world he was bringing forth https://www.amazon.com/Story-Sharp-Knife-Mythtellers-Masterworks/dp/1553658396 …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Whoa, that’s awesome! It’s amazing that one guy can master, and go beyond mere mastery, in such different fields
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No doubt about it - his achievements are impressive. And if I may add, entirely impossible within academia as it is today.
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Replying to @ranganaut @RKasturi
Utterly, yes. I fear the consequences of this for our future. Universities have been the holders of culture—preserving, renewing, and extending it—for nearly a thousand years; ending about now.
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I suspect the idea of civilization that informs the university is passe; so the demise of the university is intertwined with the demise of that civilization. Not in some apocalyptic sense but in the sense that one human coat of paint on the earth needs to be replaced by another.
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That’s very interesting… is there more to say about that, or something on the web you could point to that is relevant?
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I have an entire treatise in my head, but since that transmission hasn't made it to the scriptures yet, some related thoughts here: http://kasturirangan.com/the-globe-and-the-earth-part-one …
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