Hello and welcome and welcome back to Young Herritix Conversations.

This is our Friday interview series if you're just joining us for the first time. So glad you're here. Welcome,

always nice to have new listeners. Old veterans, OGs, will know that this show is

the classical education you didn't know you were missing. That means that out there in the world as the

Western canon becomes more and more maligned and neglected and hated in the popular elite circles,

we here at Young Heretics are claiming it.

And I offer on Tuesdays every week

just a sort of survey of a romp

through the great storehouse, the treasury of Western tradition,

Western inheritance, the intellectual inheritance of Athens and Jerusalem.

But gradually as the show has grown I've started to realize that that's only one half of the equation

The other half is talking to people out there in the world getting a real sense of what people are doing where people are placing their hopes and their efforts in the modern day because even if

Modernity is not shining with the glow of the ancient past and even if we always yearn to be walking among the philosophers in the

Athenian Agora or speaking with Machia Valley during his exile no matter where

we go back into the past, those people who were living through the past

were living in the present and it looked just as uncertain and bizarre and scary and

decadent as it does to us.

It always seems that way in the moment

because the reality of human life

is that it is full of ups and downs, twists and turns,

good and bad.

And then in retrospect, as sometimes said, the owl of Athena flies at dusk.

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