You can follow along with my adventures at this unread rube tries to tackle the great books of western civilization:
greatbooks.blog

Step 4 - Make a Plan

I'm going to start in on the St. John’s College Great Books reading list. At first I assumed that it must be a fake college like The University of Phoenix, but it turns out that this is a real university with real students, a campus and everything. www.sjc.edu/application/...

Step 3 - Are We the Baddies?

With everything that is going on right now it seems that a lot of people are having a difficult time telling right from wrong. Why can’t people just chill out and be good? I’m not sure but I'm pretty sure there are Ancient Greek Books with something to say about virtue.

Step 2 - Realize you have become attentionally deranged

You find yourself scrolling Reddit for an undetermined amount of time. You reflexively refresh bluesky while hiding from your children in the bathroom. You know what the remedy is don’t you? That’s right, Ancient Greek Literature.

Step 1 - Have an Existential Crisis

Does AI mean I'm going to be obsolete in a few short years? Oh my god, I’m turning 40. These are all great foundations for having an existential crisis, and from there it’s basically a straight line to “maybe I should start reading Ancient Greek Literature.”