A canticle for Leibowitz

JTCC sci-fi lit class presentation on Nuclear holocaust, technology, and moral imperative.

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Entertainment

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• William
• Stanton
• canticle
• leibowitz
• arthur
• miller
• nuclear
• bomb
• apocalypse

[padseenoodle]

Canticle is the best least read book.

[norcalrobbie2]

The book is all about the tension between religion and science. The novel favors the learned monks though, in that they represent the medium between science and religion/ethics (in other words, scientific progress should be governed by ethics).

[Zankjuyse]

"Sic transit mundus"

[fieldstonewall]

Hey guys, I know that this was just for a class, but I have watched this video again and again, because it is so profound. You pick up on the book's themes perfectly, and you also use ample examples from other sources like Yeats to highlight the principle of infinite return. Battlestar Galactica has this theme as well. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for this video, and I hope that all the way back then, you got a good grade. It deserves it.

[JackRussellTerrier2]

@zcuttlefish

Clint Mansell - Lux Æterna

the penultimate piece from the 2000 Darren Aronofsky film "Requiem for a Dream."

[TornTech]

This book is unreadable.

[zcuttlefish]

what is the song at the beginning of this video?

I love it, but I don't remember its name or origin.

[zcuttlefish]

what is the song at the beginning of this video?

I love it, but I don't remember it's name or origin.

[JackRussellTerrier2]

The animated music video from Los Campesinos (title: "You! Me! Dancing!") shows a very similar concept. Continuous cycles of global civilization being born, growing and advancing then destroying themselves followed by new global civilizations being born in the long lost rubble of the previous until they finally escape the permanently destroyed planet to find another habitable world where the cycle starts over.

[TheAngelusSilesius]

" A canticle..." is one of books of my life - so I called my band St.Leibowitz - I recomend everybody to read this book !

...and also" St.Leibowitz and the wild horse woman".

[Qoheleth2v1]

The perceptiveness and breadth of this disturbing piece always blows me away. I especially like this line:

"When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye. Thus apocalypse ensues..."

[darthvader5300]

Unfortunately, even with irrefutable proofs and evidences, mankind is quite too hard headed and unteachable. The only way for civilization to survive and continue to flourish is to build as many underground biospheres containing a replica of our technological civilizations, our libraries, laboratories, schools, machine tool shops, industrial complexes, public utilities, medical facilities and hospitals of all kinds. Secretly constructed and sealed from the world just days before a nuclear war.