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Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

On Gardenism with William Rosenzweig

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Robert Harrison

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8589 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A conversation with gardener, social entrepreneur, and venture investor William Rosenzweig about the ethics of care in the private and public spheres. Songs in this episode: “Bourée” by Jethro Tull and “A Lotus On Irish Streams” by Mahavishnu Orchestra.

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0:00.0

Entitled opinions clad in the light of a pole star piercing the darkness.

0:09.0

Here at the still point of the turning world, we bring you the old as well as new chronicles of love.

0:16.0

From world love to lamplight love, to the love that moves and the love that stills.

0:23.7

Your host has cherished you in numberless forms, numberless times, as it was in the beginning,

0:30.6

and ever shall be, world without end or world near its end.

0:36.3

You who hear the call of this show have threaded and re-threaded the necklace of songs,

0:42.3

and together we have floated on the stream that brings from the source old gods in new shapes

0:48.5

and new wine from the ancient vines.

0:52.7

With every show that comes your way,

0:54.9

we plant the seeds of Amor Mundi

0:57.0

in the astral depths of our magic garden,

1:00.7

this garden of the enamored mind

1:02.8

where we tend and attend to what calls for thinking,

1:07.0

where golden filaments gather around our lotus flower,

1:10.8

and where the gods will speak softly of us in days hereafter.

1:15.2

A new episode of entitled opinions coming up.

1:17.8

Stay tuned. Thank you to gore for some of the images in that opening salvo.

1:39.3

And thanks to the guests who joins me in KZSU today for calling my attention to Degor's poem, Unending Love,

1:47.8

after he listened to my monologue on Amor Mundi, which aired a few weeks ago.

1:53.9

He, my guest, declared, Amor Mundi may be the greatest monologue in entitled Opinions history. His words, not mine.

2:05.3

There's a reason why the topic of that show would have special resonance for William Rosenzweig.

2:11.5

His own world love runs deep and takes many different forms, as if the world were a garden that would revert to wilderness

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