{"id":18494,"date":"2021-09-22T07:15:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18494"},"modified":"2021-09-22T07:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:15:01","slug":"overnight-news-we-live-in-a-greek-civilization-its-time-we-acted-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18494\/overnight-news-we-live-in-a-greek-civilization-its-time-we-acted-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: We live in a Greek civilization. It\u2019s time we acted like\u00a0it."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDon’t forget: I’m a Saint Hubert’s Hound. You have nothing to teach me about\u00a0heritage.\u201d<\/p><\/div>It is my gift in life to agitate \u2013 chemicals, that is. I learned to agitate as a teenage photo geek, and to this day I agitate in the most efficient and machine-like way I possibly can.<\/p>\n

I agitate as a Greek, this because I do everything as a Greek. I’ve been watching for Greek suppositions in my thinking, because of course they are entirely man-made \u2013 not natural. There is no natural way of being human \u2013 all human civilizations are abstract contrivances \u2013 but the Greek way \u2013 identifying, distinguishing, counting, dissecting, naming, mechanizing \u2013 is arguably the least<\/em> natural, the most man-made.<\/p>\n

I’m fine with that. I love being a Greek. I love the habits of mind everyone of The West inherits from them, and I love the efficiencies in my thinking resulting from them. They gifted us with the theories upon which the entire modern world is built, but before that they gave each one of us the gift of intellectual independence.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking that adults need to be cultivating adults \u2013 teaching why<\/em> political liberty, free enterprise and open discourse are highly to be prized. Add to that list a section on how to think like a Greek \u2013 for people who already think they do.<\/p>\n

If we don’t prize our heritage, we have none. And the heritage we have is excellent \u2013 the best ever contrived by the mind of man.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

CNBC:<\/strong> Stronger mortgage demand points to September surge in home sales.<\/a><\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> Renter market picks up in suburbs.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> Taking Inflation Seriously: The Fed has taken a first step, but is it willing to go further?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Volokh Conspiracy:<\/strong> The Exploitation of Young Minds: How indoctrination shortchanges K-12 students.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDon’t forget: I’m a Saint Hubert’s Hound. You have nothing to teach me about\u00a0heritage.\u201dIt is my gift in life to agitate \u2013 chemicals, that is. I learned to agitate as a teenage photo geek, and to this day I agitate in the most efficient and machine-like way I possibly can. I agitate as a Greek, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2939,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2939\/a-sign-of-the-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":18494,"position":0},"title":"A Sign of the Times","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"April 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Sis, Thought I would catch you up while you are away at college. 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