Comments - To Name The Beasts - by Will Manidis - Minutes
Minutes
SubscribeSign in
To Name The Beasts
It is 1879. Read →
5 Comments
Top first
Mar 2Edited
Amazing essay. Thank you. I’m been trying to find an essayist that is a builder, yet theologically, philosophically, and historically rooted. I love the intersection of faith and business and can’t wait to read more. Also I’d like to connect sometime and ask some questions if you’re open. I’m at the beginning of my career, and I could use some advice and companions in this journey.
Reply
Another beautiful essay. Again I share so many of your feelings, beliefs, thoughts.
Again I must submit for your consideration another perspective: Beatrix Potter's. She was telling her stories of Peter Rabbit from inside the same culture that George Orwell described, and from Peter Rabbit's point of view. For Mr. McGregor, Peter was a thief. But for Potter and for children of all ages for generations to come, Peter is not a thief. He is a symbol of freedom and learning and life itself. And is it any wonder that the story would be told by a woman in a book for children?
History, manifest in language, provides the residual connection necessary to give (meta)stability to our social order. But we must also leave room for our differences. We must strenuously maintain divergence.
Reply
this is beautiful 🙏🏾
Reply
It also demands a posture of humility
Reply
Your points about Adam recall for me J. B. Soloveitchik's tension between Adam the first and Adam the second in "The Lonely Man of Faith".
If you have not read that essay, I think you might find it interesting. https://traditiononline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Lonely-Man-of-Faith-original.pdf
Reply