Hello, fellow 22-this-year person For some reason I had the impression most other "followers" (to put it that way) of DBH were quite older people, so a nice surprise

Exciting. I'm a little younger. If I may ask, what drove/attracted the both of you to Hart?

24y/o here. A lot of us Zillenials came to this space as refugees from the utter depravity that dominated Evangelical academia (-at least in America). Hart and those with the likes of his feathers have been a breath of fresh air. I’ve enjoyed their take on a holistic perennialism that doesn’t divulge into quantum crystal nonsense.

disagree with the last point --- the complexity of memetic grammar young people are immersed in is intense. It's a postmodern language of endless appropriation, recontextualization and reinterpretation. It's quite distant from the true the good and the beautiful, and I understand your distaste for the medium. But it's not a dumbing down, it's an adaptation to the fragmented nature of a decadent society circling the drain.

@No_Ghosts I agree. It's like a form of Menippean satire that shows the idiocy of contemporary culture. It creates a counter-environment to see the stupidity of everything going on. Those who dislike it need to accept the reality of our situation already and stop living in the past if they want to start making real change.

among us 😂

Hey, noch ein deutscher Hartianer! :)

Actually, that's my natural voice when I'm not trying to project. The microphone was closer and I was speaking with less energy. No allergies.

That does make a lot more sense now that you explained it. I keep on striking out, lol!

@@jasonegeland1446 I'm grateful for the list of respiratory aids. I do suffer from a chronic pulmonary inflammatory syndrome (since a mold poisoning from 2013-2014) and everything that helps the lungs is precious to me.

I remember through some of your older posts mentioning that. I've also been watching these two doctors on KZfaq. Some of the suggestions they made, my wife and I tried and had desirable results. One of the mucus related elixirs worked well and the sleep aid (all natural). If you want to sample of their presentations, usually fairly brief, I'll place the two links below. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLZ-l6R4p7PUmGQ.html&pp=ygUPRHIuIEJlcmcgbHVuZ3Mg m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7GHjMJquLTWZIE.html

"The Gospel According to Melpomene" in Theological Territories (UNDP).

@@leavesinthewind7441 making my way there soon. Thank you!

Well there are such things as classes and some people are one another’s comrades. But all things in moderation.

agreed, class as a meaningful category is an outdated notion, class hierarchies are flattened a construction worker, a middle manager, a doctor, a professor, and a politician are all watching the same TV shows, eating at the same restaurants, driving the same cars, speaking the same dialects and thinking the same thoughts I mean there are minor superficial differences (say the difference between a Toyota and a Mercedes) but nothing like the vast cultural chasms that once separated the classes in western society

@@No_Ghosts That is objectively false. Yes, the broad middle class culture is more capacious than once it was, but the differences in wealth are also differences in class and social standing today just as they've always been. I'm no one to complain, enjoying the fruits of the comfortable, highly educated middle class milieu in which I grew up. But one need only take a walk on the poorer side of town (if one has the courage) to see how real and deep class division is. And it's not just economic. And not all of us watch the same TV and eat at the same restaurants. Half my friends don't own TV's, not because they can't afford one, and I use mine principally for baseball and the Criterion channel. Class is always real. And real justice is unattainable if one denies that.

​​@@No_Ghosts Marxist analysis hasn't abandoned class as a category at all. Not even postmodern thinkers like Judith Butler abandon the reality of class and still use it to analyze the structures of power. The modern approach is just a more intersectional one. The structures of oppression are mainly upheld by class, but to a strong degree by gender, race and sexuality as well, which means that a holistic approach has to take the relations and influences between those mechanisms into account. Intersectionality doesn't abandon one identity in favour of another, but it acknowledges the entanglement of every individual into complex powerstructures.