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The Reading Books Initiative: The Paper Books Cure
Paul Fortunato
3 episodes
3 days ago
We are committed to making people readers. There are two main reasons for doing this: 1) to enrich our lives with the beauty and wisdom embedded in the great texts that older cultures have built up, using thousands of years of accumulated cultural resources. 2) to free ourselves from the frenzied, hurried lives that proliferate in ever-accelerating modernity.
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We are committed to making people readers. There are two main reasons for doing this: 1) to enrich our lives with the beauty and wisdom embedded in the great texts that older cultures have built up, using thousands of years of accumulated cultural resources. 2) to free ourselves from the frenzied, hurried lives that proliferate in ever-accelerating modernity.
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Philosophy
Society & Culture
Episodes (3/3)
The Reading Books Initiative: The Paper Books Cure
55-PBC-Things have memory; Deep reading; immaterial reality

- Deep reading, deep thinking

- How AI is changing us

- Molecules and cells have memory, telos, purpose

- Understanding immaterial reality

- Girl from the North Country (Dylan)

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1 month ago
21 minutes 8 seconds

The Reading Books Initiative: The Paper Books Cure
MC-1-Can we build a culture on stories about nothing? American Nihilism in Pulp Fiction

- T.S. Eliot on culture

- Nihilism - that human beings have no Telos, no purpose, no story arc.

- Pulp Fiction as case study


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1 month ago
26 minutes 32 seconds

The Reading Books Initiative: The Paper Books Cure
2025-3-MC-JP Marceau on Symbolic Thinking

My interview with JP Marceau on symbolic thinking. Recorded on June 8, 2025.

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4 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes 41 seconds

The Reading Books Initiative: The Paper Books Cure
We are committed to making people readers. There are two main reasons for doing this: 1) to enrich our lives with the beauty and wisdom embedded in the great texts that older cultures have built up, using thousands of years of accumulated cultural resources. 2) to free ourselves from the frenzied, hurried lives that proliferate in ever-accelerating modernity.