The Roots of Everything

Why did Tolkien hate allegory but fill his stories with mythic imagery? Because there's a difference between disguising your point as an author and telling a story grounded in eternal themes. This is the reason that the most beloved children's books are so resonant!

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In consumer culture we think of stories as entertainment and aesthetics as decoration, but that is not how ancient people thought. Stories for them were religious, and beauty was the image of truth. We see this most profoundly in Orthodoxy's relationship to aesthetics.

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In every culture and every age, people tell stories. It's a universal human practice because reality itself is a story. Because stories are worldviews, they are more religious than anything else. How you read the story, therefore, makes all the difference.

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Does Orthodoxy belong to the Classical "world-feeling" or to the Western? Neither! Orthodoxy inspired a new culture that rose out of the ashes of Classical antiquity and which also gave birth to its rivals: Islam, Judaism, Nestorianism, and the other early heresies.

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According to Spengler, our Western culture did not begin with the Greeks and Romans but was born around the year 1000 with a completely new take on everything from math to art to religion, all in pursuit of the same thing: infinite, unbridled will-to-power.

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