The Unbroken Thread Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos

And it also perpetuates ... this is a type of argument that ... in almost every chapter of the Unbroken Thread gets recapitulated

in the introduction i open up by saying that i wrote this book for my son trying to transmit you know the basics of of the western uh christian and classical moral tradition to him why did i write why did i write the book for him it's because i when he was one year old we live in new york city and we got on the subway and we saw a different set of ok cupid ads basically promoting polyamory um and also to be sexually behaviors that um are sexually deviant

...and author of the unbroken thread discovering the wisdom of tradition in an age of chaos...

...in the introduction I open up by saying that I wrote this book for my son trying to transmit you know the basics of of the western uh christian and classical moral tradition to him why did I write why did I write the book for him it's because I when he was one year old we live in new york city and we got on the subway and we saw a different set of ok cupid ads basically promoting polyamory um and also to be sexually behaviors that um are sexually deviant and my thought was what if my son were a little older at that point and he asked me you know baba as he calls me you know what's polyamory you know what's what's uh what's sadomasochism what you know why am I as a parent put in a situation in which um the culture is so debased so vulgar...

It's called The Unbroken Thread, Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos.

I wrote this book for my son Max.

And so my fear for my son is as much as I'm an immigrant and I'm a grateful immigrant, I'm worried about the kind of man that our Western civilization will chisel out of my Max.

And I frame it around unasked questions, questions that our age assumes have been answered because we have science or because we have technology. Questions like, is God reasonable? Or how should you serve your parents?

Well, how about the part in question seven? How must you serve your parents? You just referenced it. Answered by Confucius, which is I mean, congrats on getting that interview because that's big.

Saurabh Amari, op-ed page editor at the New York Post and the author of The Unbroken Thread, which is an excellent book that people should go read.

I do hope people will look at the book because I think a lot of these problems will be seen in a new light, in the light of the great tradition.

Chiefly speaking the Christian classical tradition which had an account of the common good ultimately.

the subtitle In an Age of Chaos, that was about to be in the subtitle of my next book. And then your book literally came across my desk and we changed it all together.

it's a book I wrote for my son, Max. He's now four years old when I started writing it. He was two.

my fear is that my Max, if just left to our own culture, will inherit a very different account of freedom, one that defines being free as just kind of keeping your options open and getting ahead in life in very materialistic terms.

the best way I can do that, I'm not a philosopher or a theologian. I'm a journalist and a storyteller, is to try to poke holes in some of our contemporary certainties.

the book's doing well and we talk about these things here. But at a public sense when you listen to our politicians and everything else and just sort of the trends of the world, are you hopeful that we can fix this?

Part two of my interview with Soraba Mari, which is a really, really interesting interview. The guy just wrote a book called The Unbroken Thread and he talks about his journey from atheism to belief and really why he believes that traditional conservative values are the the thing that can tether generations together and he talks about some of the faults that he sees in liberalism.

and just wrote a book called The Unbroken Thread really really interesting guy and we come from very different places but I think we've come to similar conclusions about the touch points on liberalism and conservatism and what will kind of get us through all of this lying nonsense actually it would be a perfect follow up for everything I talked about today so part one is on the YouTube right now