Each of us longs not for fleeting pleasure or piecemeal success but for abiding happiness--yet could it be that modern, material civilization is making abiding happiness nearly impossible?

In this talk, I discuss Rene Guenon's critique of "material civilization" before setting out my case for the need for "sacred knowledge." Such knowledge, I argue, is abiding happiness.

Timestamps:

00:00 Material Civilization
6:22 Total Work & the Goods Life
12:13 Modernity as Purgatory
16:56 Pseudo-paths
20:53 Religio & Sacred Knowledge
29:07 A Basic Choice
31:31 Two Very Practical Recommendations
35:20 Q&A

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MORE ON MY CRITIQUE OF TOTAL WORK
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