Raids on the Unspeakable

[H2O Man]

24. Interesting.

In a recent conversation with my younger son, I mentioned Merton's introduction to his book about Gandhi on non-violence. We had been talking about Fromm's writings on how when a nation-state begins to experience internal decay, it can result in a rise in power of a destructive individual or group. He's currently employed at the university he graduated from, and is finding the informal education he is getting to be as valuable as what he received in the classroom as a student. He was describing various pod-casts on the topics we were discussing, and I'd grab a book off the shelf about the same general concepts. It was then that I realized that my supply of Merton's works had disappeared from my library! Hence, for every new book I'll be buying, I'll also order a replacement of older ones that I've loaned out over the years, that haven't found their way back.