There is a way of thinking so ordinary it does not look like a belief. It looks like sanity. It says that a thing simply is what it is, that a text means what it plainly says, and that if we could just get to the facts underneath our disagreements, the disagreements would end.
It worked for a long time. It worked as long as everyone around you already agreed with you.
That condition is gone. And the same move that once held a community together now produces silos nothing can penetrate, arguments nothing can settle, and eventually violence.
Daniel L. Garner and I spend ninety minutes on what would have to change — and what that would ask of you personally.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro: why we all fall prey to literalism01:54 What literalism actually is — and why it is modern, not ancient07:52 There is no reading outside of interpretation10:29 Literalism is scientism smuggled into religion15:00 Jesus, hermeneutics, and the having mode of reading20:05 Why “self-evident” is a power move24:58 Hegel, Nagarjuna, and the shift to becoming31:14 The metacrisis and the age of indestructible maps37:41 When a culture loses its givens — and AI forces the choice45:56 Anxiety as evidence of becoming53:29 Change the language, change the people59:59 Suffering, its two failure modes, and sacramental ontology1:09:07 Transcendence inside immanence1:17:53 The one simple premise: face your fears1:22:16 Particularity, gestalt, and how we got rid of love
DANIEL L. GARNER / O.G. ROSE
Daniel writes as O.G. Rose with Michelle Opperman Garner.
* Belonging Again: An Explanation (Part I)
* Belonging Again: An Address (Part II.1)
* The Conflict of Mind: Major Epistemological Problems
* The Map Is Indestructible: Problems of Internally Consistent Systems
* A Philosophy of Glimpses: The Prolegomena to a New Metaphysics and Phenomenology of Lacks
* Thoughts: Assorted Reflections
* Second Thoughts, Third Thoughts, and everything else
THINKERS REFERENCED
Hegel, Nagarjuna, Augustine, the Kyoto School, Henry Corbin, James Hillman, Hofstadter and Sander, Bergson and Whitehead, Flannery O’Connor, C.S. Lewis, Philip Rieff, T.S. Eliot
