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Thursday, April 22, 2021

"Woke"

What a fine headline to wake to, on this Earth Day: Biden Commits the U.S. to Halving Greenhouse Emissions. Maybe we'll finally be "woke" on the central existential challenge of our time.

It's getting very near the end, today our penultimate scheduled CoPhi classes take up the middle chapters of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds and Fantasyland's discussion of virtual reality, Disneyfied nostalgia, and (echoing Susan Neiman's Why Grow Up) the reluctance of so many adults to embrace their maturity, resulting in the infantilization of the next generation (and the next, and the next). They're goin' to Disneyworld!

No less a fantasist than the great Hobbit-maker Tolkien said reason and fantasy can coexist, but only so long as people can still distinguish the latter from facts. That condition is clearly being challenged in a country (and world) where people increasingly assert their right not only to their opinions but their own facts... (continues)

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