Saving the Appearances (by Owen Barfield) Chapters 2 and 3

[@johntobey1558]

This is excellent. Importamt to be recovered to modern day.

[@MourningTalkShow]

I agree. What this book is trying to say is probably more relevant than ever, even if it is harder than ever for the modern mind to grasp. I think people's need for this information is motivating them (and myself) to push through the difficult writing.

[@lizafield9002]

Whew. Sometimes, impatience with the tedium of endless abstract babble, from yestercentury, is less about our abbreviated attention spans, today, & more a natural, Huck Finn style response ("aversion"!) to antiquated academic abstract babble with no root in the soil.

[@MourningTalkShow]

I take it you’re finding the book to contain too much babble? I completely understand that although I have now heard so many interesting writers referencing Owen Barfield that I am actually finding this book exciting. I think my interest in these specific ideas is overcoming my difficulty with the language.

[@lizafield9002]

@@MourningTalkShow Thanks for replying. Of course you're right to be enthused, & kind to offer this. Especially when a U.S. state political official has been out there explaining that the earth is flat & that her tv is always showing "globes everywhere, so a round earth is a NASA conspiracy like climate change," it's for sure handy to reflect on epistemology & how we know stuff, how to answer conspiracy theorists, & how to retain beginners mind like Socrates/ Suzuki etc, AND a sense of human doxa, like Aristotle honored , as we all need common ground on which to coordinate & cooperate to stop destroying life on earth (for 1 thing). So again, thanks!