Angus Fletcher
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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And then that creative power in the Renaissance then went on to drive science, which is why you get the scientific revolution.
And then it then also went on to drive engineering.
We get the industrial revolution and of course business, which is why we get the mercantile revolution and wealth and all these kinds of things that ended up kind of essentially sustaining the United States through its early years.
And all that came about by rejecting logic
imagination and then what happened later we've got something called the enlightenments and the enlightenment went back to logic if you ever go back and look at enlightenment art it's very boring because it's all very geometric and everything has to be in the right place and according to the enlightenment all stories have to occur in exactly the same time that they're they're performed you get this very bad very tedious place and then the romantics came back again the romantics shattered the enlightenment they said no actually what matters is emotion and spontaneity and the individual
And so there's always been a seesawing back and forth.
And the important thing to always remember is not that logic is bad or wrong, because I think a lot of people, when they start to see the limits of logic, they start to think, oh, we've got to get rid of it.
No, no, logic is a beautiful thing when it's handled by a romantic.
It's a tool.
Yes, exactly.
And now we're in this moment where AI is destroying the school system, totally destroying it, because AI can answer the test better than any human.
But AI isn't going to replace intelligence.
And so what we've got to do is we've got to take this moment to understand this is a call for creativity to come back and imagination to come back and for our own new renaissance.
But it's challenging for people because people can only think in the old logical way and when it doesn't work, they despair.
On the most profound level,
story is used to help us explore the origin of life.
And what you're always trying to do with the story is both go forwards and go backwards.
And so when you're reading the Bible, what you're always doing is you're throwing your mind forward to the apocalypse, to heaven, but you're also throwing your mind backward to Genesis.
To creation.
To creation.
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