“the God-idea must go with other relics of the Fear born of Ignorance into the limbo of savagery. … we cannot allow people who believe in this ‘God;’ they are troglodytes, as dangerous to society as any other thieves and murderers. The Christians to the Lions!”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/09/04/the-god-idea-must-go-with-other-relics-of-the-fear-born-of-ignorance-into-the-limbo-of-savagery-we-cannot-allow-people-who-believe-in-this-god-they-are-troglodytes-as-dangerous-to-s/

#aleisterCrowley #anyOther #asAnyOther #believe #book #bornSlave #brand #cannotAllow #christians #conception #dangerous #definition #fearBornOf #generallyUnderstood #god #godIdea #heritage #ideaOfGod #ignorance #ingrainedConviction #intoTheLimbo #liberLegis #lions #matthewArnold #Murderers #mustGo #NewComment #noRoomFor #notOurselves #oneSTruth #otherRelics #people #quote #realizes #righteousness #savagery #Self #Society #TheBookOfTheLaw #Thieves #troglodytes #unrighteous #victorianaticallyPhrased #whip #whiskeredWowser_

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗱 -

Arnold's goal to protect the humanities and a culture of critical thought is worthy; but his definition of culture and his portrayal of the various agencies that might save education are . . . problematic.

https://youtu.be/xUo_Z_mXn-M

#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #matthewarnold #cultureandanarchy #education #humanities #culture #governmentschools #publicschools

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 & 𝑰𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒚 - 𝑨 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕

Here is the “reboot” of the main podcast from Waywords Studio. I talk about what it’s all about, but via Johannes Brahms, Godzilla, Clair de Lune, Steve Hackman, irony, etc.

https://buff.ly/4gah68n

#matthewarnold #literarynomads #podcast #literature #stevehackman #clairdelune #radiohead #johannesbrahms, #irony #episodezero #introductionepisode #tohiscoymistress #aplit

The Guardian view on the rise of eco-poetry: writing cannot ignore global heating | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/10/the-guardian-view-on-the-rise-of-eco-poetry-writing-cannot-ignore-global-heating #Climatecrisis #CarolAnnDuffy #MatthewArnold #SimonArmitage #Poetlaureate #Environment #PaulMurray #Culture #Poetry #Books #Cop29

“And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

#MatthewArnold #DoverBeach

‘We’re All Gonna Die’ Review: A Grief-Stricken Indie with Wasted Sci-Fi Potential
#Variety #Reviews #FreddieWong #MatthewArnold #SXSW #We039reAllGonnaDie

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/were-all-gonna-die-review-freddie-wong-matthew-arnold-1235936739/

> ... the connection between technological and moral progress. William Blake wrote of the “dark satanic mills” which stripped men of their souls. He insisted that passivity in the face of the alleged movement of “progress” leads to psychic slavery. Matthew Arnold warned that “faith in machinery” was humankind’s greatest menace.
#TheMachine #ProgressTheory #MoralProgress #WilliamBlake #MatthewArnold

Matthew Arnold Returns To NBC With ‘Nowhere,’ New Drama Series In Development With Atomic Monster & Vertigo Entertainment
#News #AtomicMonster #Development #MatthewArnold #NBC #Nowhere #VertigoEntertainment

https://deadline.com/2023/12/nowhere-tv-series-matthew-arnold-nbc-1235669321/

"Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in."

#MatthewArnold (1867) #poetry #poem

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round Earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
- Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

#wandering #discovery #findingyourself #findingawe #introspection #personalphilosophy #fyp #DoverBeach #MatthewArnold #poetry

This is the bit of #Bentham that made #MatthewArnold quite irate.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world,
which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
#MatthewArnold
b 200 yrs ago🥳
#poetry