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Two thoughtful YouTube comments about Ariel Pink’s recent Triggernometry interview.
I talk about this all the time—the loss of a “language that deals with the spiritual world,” the life of virtue. What Denis de Rougement calls “The victory of the life of light.” It used to be central and in all our stories, myths, and fables.
On love as askesis (self-discipline, virtue), from Denis de Rougement’s Love in the Western World (“The Warlike Language of Love” chapter):