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Building https://t.co/Kow55gDNP9 — A private book club of 50,000+ readers dedicated to the study of the Western canon.

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Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.
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Athenaeum Book Club
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc·
If schools and universities refuse to teach the great books of the West, we must do it ourselves. We started an independent group to study the greatest texts of the Western canon, together. ...and we are now 900 members strong! 🙌 We're about to start our 14th book: we've just voted to read "The Brothers Karamazov" next. If this is something you'd like to be a part of, join our reading group. You can simply read along with us and tune into the broadcasts, or join our smaller "inner circle" and be part of the discussions directly. Every session seems even better than the last at the moment. Thank you all for taking this so seriously, it's a pleasure to study alongside all of you. Become a paid member if you'd like to support — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next athenaeumbooks.com/welcome Welcome!
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Humble Flow
Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
Wait, why are people mad at me for stating the obvious? Sundresses and heels are the ultimate cheat code. I don’t make the rules.
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Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
At this point, rooting for France or Morocco is basically cheering for the same team.
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Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
@the_culturist_ @athenaeumbc Well, what you guys are doing helps. Every person you inspire to pick up a book is a step toward bringing that culture back.
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Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc·
The situation is so much more desperate than you probably realize. University professors are saying they're now unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. Their students are simply incapable of reading more than a few pages. Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures. There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them. If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. This is civilizational. Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings: Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them. Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history. We must continue to form new minds in this same model if we're going to keep it.
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is this bad?

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Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
@athenaeumbc 100%. Books preserve the wisdom of generations. Every great civilization has depended on people willing to study, think, and build on what came before. If we want the future to be as strong as the past, we have to keep raising readers.
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Caro D@CDriscoll99·
@HumbleFlow Liberal mindset: It won’t happen It isn’t happening you’re all crazy It’s happening a bit but it’s good! It’s happened, and so what?
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Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
Guess I'll have to do my part... have a huge family and name them all after Crusader heroes.
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Humble Flow@HumbleFlow·
@doomernat22 You are right. The Crusades never happened. The Reconquista was a conspiracy theory, and we have always lived in harmony.
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Daily Romania@daily_romania·
A 56-year-old Frenchman who let four illegal migrants from Africa stay in his house over winter is now homeless after they refused to leave They threatened to 'smash his face' and committed several acts of property damage
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