Today I has an amazing experience We went to the Cathedral of Learning that is an integral part of Pitt, the sister of Carnegie Mellon. It is the closet one can get to Hogwarts in style and architecture and it is amazing.
Totally build like a cathedral, it is amazing. I told my son I am coming back to enroll in the university so I can sit there at the antique tables in a rarefied atmosphere and study and learn. The aura is inspiring and the most amazing thing about it is that it is still in use as a building with lecture rooms and classrooms. There are approximately 40 rooms that are dedicated to the culture of different countries, with accompanying guiding talk. The ability, the right, to sit in these rooms and learn - wow!!!
Over and over we heard about universities, as early as the 10th century, the pride that the nations took in education, in the idea of freedom, of truth, of decency and I wonder where it all went. How did magnificent cultures and countries deteriorate into today's countries? Where did the culture and the humanity go? Where did the decency or at least the striving for it go or when did it turn rancid from disuse?
No pie in the sky naif, I know that there were some terrible things going on throughout man's history but certainly we could have, should have advance rather than receded. We have lost sight of what we should be, what we need to strive for, to seek the truth, to abhor lies, to continuously improve ourselves, better ourselves and make no truck with those who will not, who knowingly step off into the evil for the benefits it gives them.
A trip to the Cathedral of Learning should be a required outing for all politicians, for all CEOs and perhaps then they will feel the shame and take the steps needed to improve he world - but first themselves.
Pie in the sky, I know, but that Cathedral!!!
Wonder if Trump has ever been there - one does not even have to read to benefit from it.
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