Could not agree more about the importance of the preservation of fire, and it isn't just society that needs to go back to honouring tradition but we writers of fiction. I specify my own 'kind' as needing to remember the old ways of writing, of thinking and what not because writers and artists as you've shown in this masterful essay are often in the 'frontlines' in the 'spiritual war' that we are always waging. When writers subvert, or otherwise forget tradition and even how to write in the old manner their works suffer and from there society's philosophical skills and mental capacity atrophies.
It is upon writers to write as Tolkien, Howard, Twain, Dickens, Dumas and others did and to honour their works not reject them. At least this is how I think as a writer of fantasy; it is about showing how love, hope, chivalry and good are ideals not passing fads as newer writers would do but also about striving to improve stylistically, in terms of prose and in vision for one's works as the ancestors did. Tradition isn't a straightjacket but a teacher of discipline.
Soon there's going to be no fire. Continuing to admit people from the Islamic world Africa and far east with no idea of what assimilation implies is a bad idea. Some hate our tradition ei Christmas New Year and so on . Currently the no go areas in Europe. Sharia being considered as final. Cultural clusters where the traditions of the old country are observed. Living like you are in the old country is not a good idea. Ask Italian and German. Raising flags of countries that you are never want to go back and burning old glory
Could not agree more about the importance of the preservation of fire, and it isn't just society that needs to go back to honouring tradition but we writers of fiction. I specify my own 'kind' as needing to remember the old ways of writing, of thinking and what not because writers and artists as you've shown in this masterful essay are often in the 'frontlines' in the 'spiritual war' that we are always waging. When writers subvert, or otherwise forget tradition and even how to write in the old manner their works suffer and from there society's philosophical skills and mental capacity atrophies.
It is upon writers to write as Tolkien, Howard, Twain, Dickens, Dumas and others did and to honour their works not reject them. At least this is how I think as a writer of fantasy; it is about showing how love, hope, chivalry and good are ideals not passing fads as newer writers would do but also about striving to improve stylistically, in terms of prose and in vision for one's works as the ancestors did. Tradition isn't a straightjacket but a teacher of discipline.
Well said.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Very insightful.
Thought provoking and helpful, thank you!
Soon there's going to be no fire. Continuing to admit people from the Islamic world Africa and far east with no idea of what assimilation implies is a bad idea. Some hate our tradition ei Christmas New Year and so on . Currently the no go areas in Europe. Sharia being considered as final. Cultural clusters where the traditions of the old country are observed. Living like you are in the old country is not a good idea. Ask Italian and German. Raising flags of countries that you are never want to go back and burning old glory