May 25, 2003
The Double Life Of Victor Davis Hanson
Very interesting piece in the Boston Globe on Victor Davis Hanson.
....He sought refuge in the classics department, where he studied philology. In the literature of the ancients, Hanson found a ''tragic view of the world'' that resonated with him.''The Greeks accepted the idea that we all get old, there's certain things that we can't change, human nature is constant throughout the ages and therefore certain things will always be with us-war, pestilence, the fact that individuals are capable of pretty awful things without civilization and culture,'' he explains. ''And the more I read that, the more I realized that it was the way I had been brought up.''
That very much sums up my own personal world view, and as time goes on, the more I beleive it.
Posted by Ithildin at May 25, 2003 2:53 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE