Quote by Allan Bloom on Cultural Ignorance and Civilizations

„We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.“

Dr. Alan BloomQuote by Allan Bloom on ignorance about the cultural heritage of former great civilizations.
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Dr. Alan Bloom was a respected cultural scholar who specialized in the significance of art and culture for children.

Quote by Allan Bloom on ignorance regarding cultural heritage.


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Allan Bloom quote about cultural ignorance and the civilizations of the past

Dr. Alan Bloom was a renowned cultural scholar and educator who focused extensively on the role of art in child development and the culture industry. His work highlights how certain media and art forms are tailored specifically toward young audiences.

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"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part." Allan Bloom
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Quote by Graham Hancock about society living in amnesia and unconsciousnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions." Graham Hancock
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Oswald Spengler quote about cultural situation, civilization, and the fate of a generationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant." Oswald Spengler
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"This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that." John Taylor Gatto
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"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems." Walter Lippmann
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