The Battle for What is Real
Secularization, Technique, Aristotle, and the struggle to face the real
Just before Christmas, one of my favorite writers on Substack, Luke Burgis, wrote a piece on the real that resonated with some ideas I’ve been wrestling with as I’ve been writing Re-Collecting Your Life and thinking about the concept of attention. In it, he claims, “The battle for the soul of our society is between Realism and Anti…
