Shameless Self-Promotion
From time to time I post snippets from Fleming.Foundation and occasionally whole pieces that are not the regular cup of instant espresso on demand at Facebook. Naturally I am hoping to attract a few subscribers to our site, which, while it has many free pieces, is basically a for-pay site.
Among the benefits of a subscription is a rather large backlog of essays, posts, and podcasts on literature, Scriptural problems, and films, with a special concentration on the Greek and Latin classics and all things Italian from Dante to sausage-making. This past year, we experimented with some tutoring in modern Italian, and we shall be resuming the Italian course in January and beginning, for the happy few who desire it, a course in ancient Greek. These are all free to subscribers
Of course you could also spend your leisure time in profitable and enriching activities like adoring other people's cats and reading potted quotations attributed to the wrong author. Being Americans and Europeans, of course, we are still free (for the time being) to do both.
Years ago, when classical liberals were civilized beings, a few bright spirits created the Edinburgh Review. One of the founders, the Rev. Sydney Smith, proposed a motto: Musam tenui meditamur avena (a Vergilian line line which means something like "we study/practice musical poetry played on a slender oat-straw, but which the witty Anglican parson Englished as, "We contemplate literature on a little oatmeal. The "experts" now tell us that oatmeal is hazardous to the health, but what the schools are saying is the serious literature, whether Greek, Italian, or Anglo-American, will make you a bad servant of the regime.
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We could also study the true intellectual titans of Facebook…those who must assume there is an audience eagerly awaiting their pictures of the food they are about to eat or the margaritas they are slurping at the bar.
I may be able to raise a few students of various ages from my acquaintanceship.
On the subject of oats, if they could be prepared as described in this very fine article on the history of Scottish cuisine I might, once again, bite.
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/traditional-diets/the-good-scots-diet/#gsc.tab=0
Students for the ancient Greek course, that is to say.
I must be in the wrong corner of Facebook. All I see are traditional Catholic busybodies browbeating each other over whether or not the other one is being schismatic or not. At this point, I’ll take the cat pictures.
Vince, I am in both corners, but I have systematically unfollowed all would-be sectarian propagandists. When I see ignorant tradcats arguing, I am reminded of Tom Woods’ tenure at “Latin Mass,” Woods did not even know Latin, much less anything about theology or church history. He was a Libertarian who specialized in American stuff.
Dear Vince,
My poor social media circle is confined to Reckonin, Fleming Foundation or Rorate Caeli. That’s more than enough. But recently I have expanded my reach to follow the national finals rodeo and my friend, Coleman Proctor, compete at team roping and the all around cowboy competition. He is currently 2nd in the all around and 3rd or 4th in team roping. Truly a home grown Okie who can ride and rope and speak the truth. Treats his horses and friends right too. Maybe not quite Owen Wister’s Virginian but a close Okie version.