## Highlights - Speaker 0: inventive at the time, it was countercultural. It was kind of remedy, as my husband said, for the fanaticism that he saw swirling about him. For us it's become a kind of default. So you might think about it this way. Some people have said. Some scholars have said that Montagne is a kind of proto bourgeois or at least he was, he gave inspiration to the rising bourgeois class. Now that makes sense. I think if you see um Montagne not if you define bourgeois not is kind of a grim capitalist because that bears very little resemblance to montanes life. But something more like what David brooks describes as the bobo lifestyle, right? The kind of white collar work with a creative flair. Lots of time for for hobbies and other sort of interesting pursuits. That's that's [(Time 0:29:27)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1d71e4fb9b95ad230c1c1) - notes:: Happiness is not a default state. It is in fact, a rare achievement so the expectation for people should not be “I should be happy “ - Speaker 2: you. So there's no longer, I mean, I think pascal would say, well there's no longer people aren't directed in America buys. They're not seeking something beyond themselves. Like they're just trying to figure out like how to find meaning with their crossfit classes or their movies or their sports and pascal say, yeah, good luck with that. That's never you're never going to have any luck with that. Speaker 0: Yeah, I think we sometimes fitfully reached beyond that, but it's not really necessarily supported in a consistent way by our society and because we're supposed to be happy within our kind of circles of imminent contentment, that makes us very puzzled when we're not happy within those circles. Right? So if we tell [(Time 0:30:46)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1d83d4fb9b95ad2311067) - notes:: Human beings are naturally unhappy - Speaker 0: to really understand them, and then step back and try to judge between those different ways of life. Because the fact is, you're going to have to choose, and it's best if your choice is informed, it's important because you're going to be faced with a number of very attractive competing goods. It's important to distinguish merely nice things from the absolutely needful. As we say in the book, we think liberal education might best be understood as an education in the art of choosing and of students approached it that way, they would probably emerge from college a lot more full of direction and satisfied. Speaker 2: And this also applies to adults. It's not too late for them as well. You can pick up the Iliad or Plato's Republic or kicker guard and start [(Time 0:45:27)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1dc4d4fb9b95ad231a24c) - notes:: Take a sabbath day, a day completely devoid of trying to make an impact on the world, instead a day for the world to make an impact upon you --- tags: 📥️/🎧️/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - Why Are We Restless? cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: airr isbn: doi: url: 'https://www.airr.io/episode/607dc0fcf887b05073c750a8' author: "[[@The Art of Manliness]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - Speaker 0: inventive at the time, it was countercultural. It was kind of remedy, as my husband said, for the fanaticism that he saw swirling about him. For us it's become a kind of default. So you might think about it this way. Some people have said. Some scholars have said that Montagne is a kind of proto bourgeois or at least he was, he gave inspiration to the rising bourgeois class. Now that makes sense. I think if you see um Montagne not if you define bourgeois not is kind of a grim capitalist because that bears very little resemblance to montanes life. But something more like what David brooks describes as the bobo lifestyle, right? The kind of white collar work with a creative flair. Lots of time for for hobbies and other sort of interesting pursuits. That's that's [(Time 0:29:27)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1d71e4fb9b95ad230c1c1) - notes:: Happiness is not a default state. It is in fact, a rare achievement so the expectation for people should not be “I should be happy “ - Speaker 2: you. So there's no longer, I mean, I think pascal would say, well there's no longer people aren't directed in America buys. They're not seeking something beyond themselves. Like they're just trying to figure out like how to find meaning with their crossfit classes or their movies or their sports and pascal say, yeah, good luck with that. That's never you're never going to have any luck with that. Speaker 0: Yeah, I think we sometimes fitfully reached beyond that, but it's not really necessarily supported in a consistent way by our society and because we're supposed to be happy within our kind of circles of imminent contentment, that makes us very puzzled when we're not happy within those circles. Right? So if we tell [(Time 0:30:46)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1d83d4fb9b95ad2311067) - notes:: Human beings are naturally unhappy - Speaker 0: to really understand them, and then step back and try to judge between those different ways of life. Because the fact is, you're going to have to choose, and it's best if your choice is informed, it's important because you're going to be faced with a number of very attractive competing goods. It's important to distinguish merely nice things from the absolutely needful. As we say in the book, we think liberal education might best be understood as an education in the art of choosing and of students approached it that way, they would probably emerge from college a lot more full of direction and satisfied. Speaker 2: And this also applies to adults. It's not too late for them as well. You can pick up the Iliad or Plato's Republic or kicker guard and start [(Time 0:45:27)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1dc4d4fb9b95ad231a24c) - notes:: Take a sabbath day, a day completely devoid of trying to make an impact on the world, instead a day for the world to make an impact upon you --- tags: 📥️/🎧️/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - Why Are We Restless? cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: airr isbn: doi: url: 'https://www.airr.io/episode/607dc0fcf887b05073c750a8' author: "[[@The Art of Manliness]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - Speaker 0: inventive at the time, it was countercultural. It was kind of remedy, as my husband said, for the fanaticism that he saw swirling about him. For us it's become a kind of default. So you might think about it this way. Some people have said. Some scholars have said that Montagne is a kind of proto bourgeois or at least he was, he gave inspiration to the rising bourgeois class. Now that makes sense. I think if you see um Montagne not if you define bourgeois not is kind of a grim capitalist because that bears very little resemblance to montanes life. But something more like what David brooks describes as the bobo lifestyle, right? The kind of white collar work with a creative flair. Lots of time for for hobbies and other sort of interesting pursuits. That's that's [(Time 0:29:27)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1d71e4fb9b95ad230c1c1) - notes:: Happiness is not a default state. It is in fact, a rare achievement so the expectation for people should not be “I should be happy “ - Speaker 2: you. So there's no longer, I mean, I think pascal would say, well there's no longer people aren't directed in America buys. They're not seeking something beyond themselves. Like they're just trying to figure out like how to find meaning with their crossfit classes or their movies or their sports and pascal say, yeah, good luck with that. That's never you're never going to have any luck with that. Speaker 0: Yeah, I think we sometimes fitfully reached beyond that, but it's not really necessarily supported in a consistent way by our society and because we're supposed to be happy within our kind of circles of imminent contentment, that makes us very puzzled when we're not happy within those circles. Right? So if we tell [(Time 0:30:46)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1d83d4fb9b95ad2311067) - notes:: Human beings are naturally unhappy - Speaker 0: to really understand them, and then step back and try to judge between those different ways of life. Because the fact is, you're going to have to choose, and it's best if your choice is informed, it's important because you're going to be faced with a number of very attractive competing goods. It's important to distinguish merely nice things from the absolutely needful. As we say in the book, we think liberal education might best be understood as an education in the art of choosing and of students approached it that way, they would probably emerge from college a lot more full of direction and satisfied. Speaker 2: And this also applies to adults. It's not too late for them as well. You can pick up the Iliad or Plato's Republic or kicker guard and start [(Time 0:45:27)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63d1dc4d4fb9b95ad231a24c) - notes:: Take a sabbath day, a day completely devoid of trying to make an impact on the world, instead a day for the world to make an impact upon you