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Welcome to Entitle Opinions.

My name is Robert Harrison, and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.

Last week, we aired a show about Amormundi or Love of the World.

Christina Rosetti once wrote a poem called Amormundi.

Like St. Augustine, Christina thought love of the world is the easy path.

Oh, where are you going with your love locks flowing on the west wind blowing along this valley track?

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

I'll go instead with Hannah Arendt, who wrote, What is most difficult is to love the world as it is.

Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection,

but the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.

I said it before, and I'll say it again, only that kind of love gives the world a future.

How deep is our love? Does the world have a collective future?

These are some of the questions on tap for us today.

Stay tuned.

We're letting it roll on entitled opinions like there's no tomorrow. Does the world have a collective future?

That's a question that asks not so much about the world, but about why so many of us feel

that it's on the verge of self-annihilation.

That feeling is not uncommon. In the human psyche, the end is always near. The world is always approaching an ultimate threshold.

Yet instead of the promised end, all we get are images of that horror or what we call history.

One thousand years after apocalyptic hysteria swept over Europe toward the end of the first millennium

a.D. It's still one thing after another after another. I can't go on. I will go on. Or, as the seafarer

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