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Beau L'Amour, Louis' son, on the book of his father's to start with first. ttps://www.facebook.com/share/r/18J4S6BA4q/
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I'm not sure what the age of a problem has to do with its urgency. Evil, for example. Goes way back.
People have been beefing about the distinction between less and fewer for about 40 years. I know the difference. Less stuff, fewer things. Much stuff, many things. I'll apply it if you employ me. But could you please shut up about it? It's so OLD!
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This is the result of people who can't distinguish between continuous and discrete number. I will join the counter revolution.
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Despite being a professional writer, I struggled in composition classes. I only later realized what the real problem was. It wasn't a lack of skills. I could have overcome that. It was that a really didn't have anything to say. And I bet I'm not the only one with that problem.
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"He made his friends laugh until they ached. He was ebulliently well-informed, spontaneously hilarious, mischievous and, at the same time, tough."
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"The nihilist is the one who finds the world either unreal or accidental or both."—Karsten Harries, In a Strange Land: An Exploration of Nihilism (1961), p. 1 [Dissertation]
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Our politics is trapped between an extreme romanticism that promises Heaven on earth through good intentions and social progrmas, and an extreme form of rationalism that promises, through the proper exercise of human innovation and ingenuity, a way to get there.
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Yes. L'Amour was accomplished in many facets of studliness: A professional bareknuckle fighter who won 51 of 59 fights, a merchant seaman in the Dutch East Indies, a lumberjack, miner, and cattle skinner. These were things that made him a better writer. He actually knew stuff.
Plus, he was on a Tank Destroyer during the Big War. He is a boss writer and was a great American. Just my opinion.
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"I agree with Ludwig Wittgenstein when he suggests in the Philosophical Investigations that philosophical problems have the form, 'I do not know my way about'."—Karsten Harries, "Philosophy and Freedom" (lecture), p. 1 bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campus…
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You are correct. That is the standard answer. I entered the L'Amour novels in media res, with some of his more standard westerns, and only later read the Sackett series.
My recommendations in regard to where to start on L'Amour are colored by that as well as the fact that if someone wants to sample L'Amour and reads Sackett's Land, which takes place partly in England during the Elizabethan Age, it's not going to be very representative of his novels in general. It's very good, just quite different.
I think very highly of the Sacketts series. It is our national saga, and the Sacketts' tentacles extend throughout many of his other stories. I think that to read this series is the best introduction to who are as Americans, and that students would gain far more from it that reading any available American history book.
I was just trying to avoid someone reading Sackett's Land and thinking it was representative of most of his other books. Again is a great book, but not very representative.
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There are 30 or 40 equally good, but you might try Crossfire Trail, To Tame a Land, or Down the Long Hills.
I was not born here, and Louis L'Amour was not really known in Europe (or at least not in my then-communist neck of the woods). I wanted to look into his books—both for myself as for our students as well.
Do you have any recommendation regarding a starting point? Which novel should I read to convince me he ought to be read, especially by our young men and women?
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In today's politics, sin is considered by many to reside in institutions rather than in individuals. And we therefore believe that the means to social improvement is the reform of institutions. If we get the institutions right, goodness will come.
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One of the reasons Louis L'Amour is such a compelling storyteller is that he knows the names of things—both of things in the natural order and things in the moral order.
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"The human mind must...choose to use itself properly to achieve its primary purpose which is to find the truth of things...And yet, the mind can talk itself out of using itself...We have talked ourselves out of knowing what we can know, and, in particular, what we are."—James V. Schall, A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning, p. 2
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5) As classical educator Martin Cothran @MartinCothran pointed out years ago in "The Critical Thinking Skills Hoax", in the view of the 'Progressive Educators' of 'Critical Thinking':
* "...Knowledge is unnecessary, goes the thinking of progressive educators, because the only thing necessary is skills. And so we think we can divorce skills from knowledge..."
, and this isn't difficult to see in your local schools, as Dewey's emphasis on teaching 'How to think, not what to think!', has driven our cultural drift (plunge) away from our understanding of the West in general, and of America in particular.
And 'The Right' is ever eager to call for more 'reform!' with still more testing in 'How' to get 'answers!' that 'everyone knows!', and which ever fewer are able to understand.
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