The ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
4:00 Reading begins.
5:00 Swindling classes
6:00 The Rectification of Names by Confucius
9:00 People who talk nonsense
10:00 Phatic
11:00 Social skills and context
13:00 To teach, move or delight; to obscure, bamboozle or bore.
14:00 Infant mewling
15:00 Secular Koranism
17:00 Language and neologisms
19:00 Playground taunts
20:00 English is an imperial and global language.
21:00 Language laziness and being monoglot
22:00 Language is but a code.
23:00 Correct English
24:00 Red pill, black pill, white pill, blue pill
26:00 Not speaking the lingo
27:00 White South Africans
28:00 Imperial is a cultural exchange.
Language is a badge of identity.
30:00 Europeans no longer bother learning their own languages properly.
33:00 Spoken and written language
34:00 Chinese
35:00 The written word
Written revelation
36:00 The law cannot exist without the written word.
37:00 The New Testament was in Koine Greek.
38:00 Paul spoke Greek and Hebrew.
Jefferson Bible
40:00 Paul's marketing target and strategy
41:00 Constantine's conversion to Christianity
42:00 Julian the Apostate
43:00 Prose and poetry
46:00 Poetry is artistic language.
47:00 Chaucer and Shakespeare
49:00 Theory and Practice
51:00 Beowulf
53:00 A novel made up of text messages of the characters to each other
Email
56:00 Vows of monastic silence
57:00 Social media platforms
58:00 AI
Grok
1:00:00 A human will plug the plug on AI.
1:02:00 AI as a tool of government
1:03:00 AI boyfriends and girlfriends
1:04:00 Luddites and Luddism
1:06:00 Sam Altman
1:08:00 The thoughtful thought-criminal
1:09:00 Ezra Pound
1:16:00 Eustace Mullins
1:17:00 Wife of Bath's Tale
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