“The Sun-God Also Rises: A Christian’s Eulogy for ISIS-Occupied Palmyra”

“The Sun-God Also Rises: A Christian’s Eulogy for ISIS-Occupied Palmyra” August 28, 2015

 

Baal-Shamin Temple, Tadmor
The Temple of Baal-Shamin at Palmyra, as it appeared until it was destroyed just a few days ago
(Click on the image to enlarge it.)
Photo by Bernard Gagnon

 

http://philosproject.org/isis-palmyra-israel-syria-islam/

 

“Whether education can foster and improve culture or not, it can surely adulterate and degrade it. For there is no doubt that in our headlong rush to educate everybody, we are lowering our standards, and more and more abandoning the study of those subjects by which the essentials of our culture—of that part of it which is transmissible by education—are transmitted; destroying our ancient edifices to make ready the ground upon which the barbarian nomads of the future will encamp in their mechanized caravans.”

T. S. Eliot, Notes Toward a Definition of Culture (1948)

Posted from Erfurt, Germany

 

 

 


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