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I hate the current schooling system even more now.

Struggling to follow a bit. Must have missed core pieces of context when the main character got switched around. 😅
I’ll have to read up on the sparknotes when I’m finished. 🤣

Television is at its most trivial, and therefore most dangerous when its aspirations are high. When it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations.

The form of media used for discourse dictates what kind of content can be generated by it. E.g. Smoke signals are insufficiently complex to do philosophy.

Most [news presenters] spend more time with their hairdryers than their scripts...
Although the federal communications act makes no mention of it, those without camera appeal are excluded from addressing the public about what is called "the news of the day".

"The paradox of apathy is that we are captivated by the things we don't really care about and are lukewarm to the things that, in our heart of hearts, mean the most to us. We don't act on what we should act on, but we are awakened to things we should probably ignore."

It is encouraging that we have many examples of people before us who had zeal for what truly mattered. And that God is with us in this valley.

The paradox of apathy is that we are captivated by the things we don’t really care about and are lukewarm to the things that, deep in our heart of hearts, mean the most to us. p23

Rule 5 is pretty interesting.
Talking about the necessity of correcting/disciplining your children (using minimum necessary force) rather than letting them get away with things that build up resentment in yourself and more importantly, the other people around them.

Or else they will get indirectly punished more harshly by your own built up resentment, and/or by the world (which is much less forgiving) around them.

Ch5 p127
When someone does something you are trying to get them to do, reward them. No grudge after victory.

Book 4 - Chapter 12;
If physical objects please you, praise God for them, but turn back your love to their Creator, lest, in those things which please you, you displease him.

If souls please you, let them be loved in God; for in themselves they are mutable, but in him firmly established – without him they would simply cease to exist.

The only reason that a stitch in time saves nine is the assonance. If it saved eight the phrase would be forgotten. English cats have nine lives, in Germany they have sechs Leben. You may, of course, be wondering why either of these phrases needed a particular number; that’s all down to the Fourteenth Rule.