Literature Curricula - Revision history

Michael Thomas Jones at 00:41, 19 April 2026

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	short films		short films

			Nemets: Barbara Tuchman, TR Fehrenbach, John Toland, Alfred Crosby

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	#Americans		#Americans
	#Romantics		#Romantics

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	#Natural Philosophers		#Natural Philosophers
			#[[Pirate Lore\|Pirates]]
	#Samurai		#Samurai
	#Witches		#Witches

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	== The Beginning of the Lore ==		== The Beginning of the Lore ==
	American teenagers are swamped in bad ideas and dumb media all the time. They have a dearth of opportunities to be initiated into basically good and interesting ideas. The Lore is a single anthology of several hundred excerpts of short texts across several millennia, designed to be navigable in a year or two, that would expose them to difficult passages from primary sources and interesting ideas that they probably otherwise might never be exposed to. This is designed to be fun, quirky, and inspiring, though lacking the substance of close reading through entire works. This provides short texts as a spring board for interesting discussions about history and the nature of reality and to begin thinking in other categories than what social media typically provides.		American teenagers are swamped in bad ideas and dumb media all the time. They have a dearth of opportunities to be initiated into basically good and interesting ideas. The Lore is a single anthology of several hundred excerpts of short texts across several millennia, designed to be navigable in a year or two, that would expose them to difficult passages from primary sources and interesting ideas that they probably otherwise might never be exposed to. This is designed to be fun, quirky, and inspiring, though lacking the substance of close reading through entire works. This provides short texts as a spring board for interesting discussions about history and the nature of reality and to begin thinking in other categories than what social media typically provides.

			Beyond concepts, an added benefit of this reading list being widely used in the next generation would be just the linguistic broadening - the reintroduction of vocabulary and phrasings that might otherwise be forgotten in the deluge of social media and its muddying of English speech. We need to lay down enough old stones up the river of time so that young people can find a pathway back through the centuries, and not just get swept away by its unintelligibility.

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	#Antiquarians		#Antiquarians
	#Fairies		#[[Fairy Lore\|Fairies]]
	#Colonists		#Colonists
	#Empires		#Empires

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	== The Beginning of the Lore ==		== The Beginning of the Lore ==
	American teenagers are swamped in bad ideas and dumb media all the time. They have a dearth of opportunities to be initiated into basically good and interesting ideas. The Lore is a single anthology of several hundred excerpts of short texts across several millennia, designed to be navigable in a year or two, that would expose them to difficult passages from primary sources and interesting ideas that they probably otherwise might never be exposed to. This is designed to be fun, quirky, and inspiring, though lacking the substance of close reading through entire works. This is ~~more~~ ~~just~~ as spring board for interesting discussions about history and the nature of reality and to begin thinking in other categories than what social media typically provides.		American teenagers are swamped in bad ideas and dumb media all the time. They have a dearth of opportunities to be initiated into basically good and interesting ideas. The Lore is a single anthology of several hundred excerpts of short texts across several millennia, designed to be navigable in a year or two, that would expose them to difficult passages from primary sources and interesting ideas that they probably otherwise might never be exposed to. This is designed to be fun, quirky, and inspiring, though lacking the substance of close reading through entire works. This provides short texts as a spring board for interesting discussions about history and the nature of reality and to begin thinking in other categories than what social media typically provides.

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	#George-Kreis		#George-Kreis
	#Explorers		#Explorers
			#Archaeologists
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			#High Society
			#Cowboys
			#Avant-Garde
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	#Atomics		#Atomics
	#Hippies		#Hippies
			#Spies & Regime Changes
	#Rockets		#Rockets
			#Computers
			#Civil Rights
	#White Ladies (L'Engle, Le Guin, Lamott, Dillard)		#White Ladies (L'Engle, Le Guin, Lamott, Dillard)
	#Gonzo (Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe)		#Gonzo (Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe)
			#Soldiers of Fortune
	#California Buddhism		#California Buddhism
	#Transhumanists		#Transhumanists
	#Preppers		#Preppers
			#Terrorists
	#Nothomb		#Nothomb
	#Acceleration		#Acceleration

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 While general lists will be provided for free exploration, each should contain a main curriculum that could cover a six year course of study throughout secondary school of that culture, whether in translation or (preferably) in the original language.
-[[English Literature|English]]
+#[[English Literature|English]]
-French
+#French
 == The Beginning of the Lore ==
-American teenagers are swamped in bad ideas and dumb media all the time. They have a dearth of opportunities to be initiated into basically good and interesting ideas. The Lore is a single anthology of several hundred excerpts of short texts across several millennia, designed to be navigable in a year or two, that would expose them to difficult passages and interesting ideas that they probably otherwise might never be exposed to. This is designed to be fun, quirky, and inspiring, though lacking the substance of close reading through entire works. This is more just as spring board for interesting discussions about the nature of reality and to begin thinking in other categories than what social media typically provides
+American teenagers are swamped in bad ideas and dumb media all the time. They have a dearth of opportunities to be initiated into basically good and interesting ideas. The Lore is a single anthology of several hundred excerpts of short texts across several millennia, designed to be navigable in a year or two, that would expose them to difficult passages from primary sources and interesting ideas that they probably otherwise might never be exposed to. This is designed to be fun, quirky, and inspiring, though lacking the substance of close reading through entire works. This is more just as spring board for interesting discussions about history and the nature of reality and to begin thinking in other categories than what social media typically provides.
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 == A Basic Great Books Curriculum ==

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Core Ideas

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	== ~~Core~~ ~~Ideas~~ ==		== The Beginning of the Lore ==
			American teenagers are swamped in bad ideas and dumb media all the time. They have a dearth of opportunities to be initiated into basically good and interesting ideas. The Lore is a single anthology of several hundred excerpts of short texts across several millennia, designed to be navigable in a year or two, that would expose them to difficult passages and interesting ideas that they probably otherwise might never be exposed to. This is designed to be fun, quirky, and inspiring, though lacking the substance of close reading through entire works. This is more just as spring board for interesting discussions about the nature of reality and to begin thinking in other categories than what social media typically provides

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	[[The Sublime]]		[[The Sublime]]