Ep. 46: The Eternal Conversation
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
You can't cancel the West. You can try, but its truths are eternal and the great conversation across generations marches on. That's the vision of Raphael in his masterwork, the School of Athens. In this episode of "Young Heretics," Spencer Klavan walks through the history and meaning of his favorite painting.
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| 0:00.0 | The West cannot be canceled. |
| 0:07.4 | You actually can't destroy the West by censoring it. |
| 0:12.4 | You can do a whole bunch of damage |
| 0:14.4 | and you can cause a lot of people, a lot of misery |
| 0:17.4 | and we are seeing the seeds of that right now, man. |
| 0:20.2 | We're seeing Amazon kickbooks. |
| 0:22.8 | It doesn't like off of its platform. |
| 0:25.0 | We're seeing movies and, you know, children's books |
| 0:29.2 | like Dr. Suss being censored and cut out of the public square. |
| 0:34.0 | We're seeing all kinds of efforts to clamp down tighter and tighter |
| 0:39.2 | into just one ideology, only one vision of critical race theory |
| 0:44.0 | and woke doctrine will be acceptable. |
| 0:46.4 | There are people who want a world that is sanitized in that way. |
| 0:51.6 | But the big lesson that I'm going to draw today |
| 0:55.2 | from our episode is that no matter how hard you try to do that, |
| 1:00.8 | the conversation, the great intergenerational conversation |
| 1:04.2 | that is the West goes on. |
| 1:06.6 | And I'm going to do this by talking about my favorite painting |
| 1:10.8 | in the entire world. |
| 1:12.4 | And that's Raphael's School of Athens. |
| 1:15.4 | It's behind me, if you're watching on YouTube, |
| 1:18.0 | I always have a copy of this painting on our set where we record. |
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