The Midas Touch and the Screenification and Sterilization of the World // Episode 195

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Nathaniel Hawthorne has a lovely version of the story of King Midas, called "The Golden Touch," and Joseph read it aloud to his kids recently. While it's ostensibly about greed, it's also about exchanging real life for sterile, un-smellable, un-tasteable, un-nourishing shiny facsimiles. In other, unrelated news, how's your smartphone looking these days?

Here's Hawthorne's story: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35377/35377-h/35377-h.htm#THE_GOLDEN_TOUCH but it's public domain, so you can find it many places...

Here's a link for Catholic husbands to spend 45 minutes with Joseph: https://bookme.name/ouroutpost/45-minutes-with-joseph

Here's a link for the Joseph Pearce talk on October 19th in Jackson, MI: https://www.castgeorge.com/events/pearce

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