- It's too much, demanding, etc...
- Just in the beginning, because the tastes are being educated, then you will not be able to
live without reading, for example.
Because cultivated is more than reading, culture also means “watching” other arts and
more. I am shameful by many intellectuals who have a great deal of restraint in its
scope, it is limited to a few cultural segments and I think that's all about the subject.
Which is not really a subject, it's life itself, a beautiful one, no harm.
CULTURE IS THE TOTALITY OF MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES
CREATED BY MANKIND OVER THE AGES.
- It's too much.
- I'll show you some shortcuts, though that limits you...but nothing...
- It's too hard.
- Just in the beginning, I said it before. Here's an example of human typology, Plato's
Cave. It's just a story like a scriptic stretch, but it will teach you how to identify and
avoid a lot of people who can hurt you, or you would otherwise tolerate it or even warm
the snake at your breast. It's about the danger of indifference and complacency, about the
unseen face of failure. And all the enormous benefits that come from reading and
“thinking” of this allegory are just a few pages.
The appetite for culture is like appetite for food, it comes by practicing it. Real scenario:
- Grandma, I brought you salade au boeuf.
First time she heard about something like this...I do not know how it is in other parts, but
in our town, we consider it a traditional dish, though it's French.
- I won't eat that crap, she replied.
But eventually she tested it, just to reply she won't eat that.
The second time she ate a little and shut up, no more critics and the 3rd time:
- I hope you brought salade au boeuf.
- There is the danger of becoming sophists, I hear voices behind my back. We will be