Greetings! Thank you for your work on Weaver. I have been laboring hard to put Visions of Order in audio on my channel, along with other major essays. I think I'll reproduce Ideas Have Consequences as well. You and I have mutual friends. Best wishes to you, and I am glad I found your channel. ☦
Thank you! It's not perfect, but a little bit of play with punctuation goes a long way in yielding the right cadence for a given passage. I'm pleased with how it turned out.
46:32 perfect equality yields equal loss for all 1:03:38 Writing a Good Book for the South 1:20:57 Simms poem 1:28:35 Doctrine & Disintegration 1:32:32 Episcopalian South 1:36:03 Gentleman v. Revolutionary 1:38:32 Man cannot retain... If... 1:40:56 "Backward" 1:46:55 aversion to inquiry
Weaver understood Southern history and Southern culture from a perspective that was both rigidly ideological and partly ahistorical. Did his definition of “Old South” even distinguish the antebellum period from the Confederate period? I ask this because the Confederate leadership set the South on a course of state-assisted and state-directed heavy industrialization. (Note that the antebellum South also had a growing [indigenous] industrialist class.) It could be that what Weaver called the “Southern tradition” would’ve died a natural death in an alternate reality where the (industrializing) Confederacy had survived the war. In any case, the Confederate planners of actual history probably would’ve considered agrarianism a form of unilateral disarmament. Let me recommend against blindly trusting in the morality of Weaver’s antimaterialism. Yes, the expansion of material wealth that resulted from industrial and commercial revolutions gave rise to many terrible things. However, it’s necessary to remember that the rise of civilization was impossible when Stone Age humans lived under conditions of grinding material deprivation. In other words, civilization became possible only when humans acquired the ability to produce the material SURPLUSES that in turn created the free time necessary for artistic and intellectual pursuits. Therefore, it can be deduced that Weaver’s Southern “utopia” of antimaterialism could only have been an abject vassal. In fact, Weaver’s antimaterialism was/is for the South nothing more than a siren’s song.
The Agrarian School’s vision was/is premised on a completely ahistorical interpretation of Southern history: "On the eve of the Civil War, the slave states ranked among the industrial nations of the world in miles of railroads, numbers of steamboats, annual production of pig iron and coal, and the extent of telegraph connections. Tanneries, foundries, slaughterhouses, and flour mills added greatly to the material capacity of the nascent Confederacy. Only England, France, two other European powers, and the North possessed more cotton and woolen spindles than the slave states, which had several hundred cotton and woolen mills." (Wilson, Harold S. Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. University Press of Mississippi, 2002, Preface.)
What about the cave paintings? Hunter gather funeral rites? Or gobleki teppe? Which was a temple built by Hunter gatherers. The agrarian revolution theory has been debunked. The human spiritual impulse might have btwhst sparked the agrarian revolution as Hunter gatherer groups wish to stay closer to their holy sites. Instead of the other way around with agrarian discoveries suddenly made pinotes enough to pursue other things
@@Godfrey544 There’s no evidence that the Gobekli Tepe people lived under conditions of “grinding material deprivation.” The theory is that the wetter climate of the time allowed for grains and wildlife to exist in abundance there. Similarly, the advanced cultures of South America’s Pacific coast evolved because of the (material) surpluses that resulted from close proximity to waters that were rich in fish. It was no pure coincidence that the first city-states developed in the Fertile Crescent. If it were just a matter of religious devotion, advanced civilizations would’ve appeared uniformly all over the planet in a manner irrespective of proximity to rivers and other sources of wealth. The hunter-gatherers of the North American interior, for example, would’ve been at the same level of development as the farming cultures of Mesoamerica.
Greetings! Thank you for your work on Weaver. I have been laboring hard to put Visions of Order in audio on my channel, along with other major essays. I think I'll reproduce Ideas Have Consequences as well. You and I have mutual friends. Best wishes to you, and I am glad I found your channel. ☦
I've been wanting to read this book for a couple of months now, but this is much better, thank you.
Thank you very much for sharing this work. The writing and narration are both excellent!
Highly appreciated! I'm eagerly waiting for the next chapter.
Thank you for your hard work putting this together and posting this most important work! It is much appreciated and I hope you continue.
excellent use of AI Christopher Lee. Better than most actor performed audiobooks
Thank you! It's not perfect, but a little bit of play with punctuation goes a long way in yielding the right cadence for a given passage. I'm pleased with how it turned out.
Please finish!
Chapter 2 when?
Is this the full text? If not, when will you be uploading the rest of the book? Thank's for your work!
25:16 gov. Wilson's pamphlet
---36:59 the north's irreverence
---37:09 Judah Benjamin's statement
46:32 perfect equality yields equal loss for all
1:03:38 Writing a Good Book for the South
1:20:57 Simms poem
1:28:35 Doctrine & Disintegration
1:32:32 Episcopalian South
1:36:03 Gentleman v. Revolutionary
1:38:32 Man cannot retain... If...
1:40:56 "Backward"
1:46:55 aversion to inquiry
Have you thought about doing The South in the Making of the Nation or Confederate Military History books?
Also, what AI did you use for this?
Weaver understood Southern history and Southern culture from a perspective that was both rigidly ideological and partly ahistorical. Did his definition of “Old South” even distinguish the antebellum period from the Confederate period? I ask this because the Confederate leadership set the South on a course of state-assisted and state-directed heavy industrialization. (Note that the antebellum South also had a growing [indigenous] industrialist class.)
It could be that what Weaver called the “Southern tradition” would’ve died a natural death in an alternate reality where the (industrializing) Confederacy had survived the war. In any case, the Confederate planners of actual history probably would’ve considered agrarianism a form of unilateral disarmament.
Let me recommend against blindly trusting in the morality of Weaver’s antimaterialism. Yes, the expansion of material wealth that resulted from industrial and commercial revolutions gave rise to many terrible things. However, it’s necessary to remember that the rise of civilization was impossible when Stone Age humans lived under conditions of grinding material deprivation. In other words, civilization became possible only when humans acquired the ability to produce the material SURPLUSES that in turn created the free time necessary for artistic and intellectual pursuits. Therefore, it can be deduced that Weaver’s Southern “utopia” of antimaterialism could only have been an abject vassal. In fact, Weaver’s antimaterialism was/is for the South nothing more than a siren’s song.
The Agrarian School’s vision was/is premised on a completely ahistorical interpretation of Southern history:
"On the eve of the Civil War, the slave states ranked among the industrial nations of the world in miles of railroads, numbers of steamboats, annual production of pig iron and coal, and the extent of telegraph connections. Tanneries, foundries, slaughterhouses, and flour mills added greatly to the material capacity of the nascent Confederacy. Only England, France, two other European powers, and the North possessed more cotton and woolen spindles than the slave states, which had several hundred cotton and woolen mills." (Wilson, Harold S. Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. University Press of Mississippi, 2002, Preface.)
What about the cave paintings? Hunter gather funeral rites? Or gobleki teppe? Which was a temple built by Hunter gatherers. The agrarian revolution theory has been debunked. The human spiritual impulse might have btwhst sparked the agrarian revolution as Hunter gatherer groups wish to stay closer to their holy sites. Instead of the other way around with agrarian discoveries suddenly made pinotes enough to pursue other things
@@Godfrey544 There’s no evidence that the Gobekli Tepe people lived under conditions of “grinding material deprivation.” The theory is that the wetter climate of the time allowed for grains and wildlife to exist in abundance there. Similarly, the advanced cultures of South America’s Pacific coast evolved because of the (material) surpluses that resulted from close proximity to waters that were rich in fish.
It was no pure coincidence that the first city-states developed in the Fertile Crescent. If it were just a matter of religious devotion, advanced civilizations would’ve appeared uniformly all over the planet in a manner irrespective of proximity to rivers and other sources of wealth. The hunter-gatherers of the North American interior, for example, would’ve been at the same level of development as the farming cultures of Mesoamerica.