GreenLoeb

About me edit

GreenLoeb

en-us
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Thisere user larnt Appalachian English fum ther own kin.

sax-en

This brooker wishes to cleanse English of needless fremd words.

enm-3

This wiȝt knoweþ Englysshe ful wel.

This user is a
Christian humanist

This user is an
Anglo-Catholic

This user admires Martin Luther.

This user is interested in Benedictine spirituality.

This user is a native Appalachian.

SJC

This user is a Johnnie!

This user is a Tory Radical

This user is a paleoconservative.

This user identifies as a communitarian.

This user supports neo-republicanism and the politics of the common good

This user supports Neo-Luddism and resists modern technologies.

This user likes John Adams.

This user is a fan of the political principles of Alexis de Tocqueville.

This user believes that every nation has an inherent right of national sovereignty.

This user is interested in moral realism.

This user is a (neo-)Platonist.

This user is interested in German intellectual history

This user knows that G. W. F. Hegel was a genius.

This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.

This user is interested in the industrial revolution.

This user is interested in the digital revolution.

This user has read Capital Volume 1.

This user is an admirer of Borges.

This user loves baseball.

This user likes drinking beer from a pint jug

This user loves hot dog.

RVW

This user holds
Ralph Vaughan Williams
in high esteem

This user enjoys Americana.

This user enjoys jazz music.

My love of encyclopedias goes back to my earliest memories, when I would dig through my grandfather’s 1978 World Book Encyclopedia set for hours every afternoon, from the time I got home from school till dinner, and often late into the night, well past my bedtime. I started editing Wikipedia in May of 2019, though I had been lurking and browsing Wikipedia since around 2008, when I was 10 years old. My username is a reference to the color of the Greek volumes published by the Loeb Classical Library. I hope to own every volume they publish one day.

I am a graduate student in political theory, a lowercase-o orthodox Christian, a twelfth-generation Appalachian, and an ex-Marxist who was so entranced by After Virtue that I now would call myself a conservative communitarian. I have a deep interest in marginal and radical political thought, motivated by my longstanding sense that liberalism is a philosophical dead end which degrades the ontological status of the human being. These biographical facts guide a lot of what I edit on here. My own chief intellectual influences are the Hebrew prophets, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, the English metaphysical poets, Tocqueville, Kierkegaard, Hannah Arendt, T. S. Eliot, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Christopher Lasch, and Giorgio Agamben.

I read a lot, and you are welcome to follow me on Goodreads.