User:GreenLoeb

About me

GreenLoeb

Biographical miscellany

This user is a native Appalachian. This user is proud of his Appalachian heritage. This user is of Ulster-Scots ancestry This user is a Christian humanist This user is an Anglo-Catholic This user is a paleoconservative. SJCThis user is a Johnnie! ¶This user is a professional editor. en-us -ap-NThisere user larnt Appalachian English fum ther own kin. sax-enThis brooker wishes to cleanse English of needless fremd words. enm-3This wiȝt knoweþ Englysshe ful wel. la-1Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest. grc-1Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συμβάλλεσθαι ὀλίγῃ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς. Wikipedian since 2019-05-19 This user employs dialectics as an analytical framework. This user worships their cat. This user thinks the pig is a noble creature. This user likes owls. This user loves the forest. This user loves baseball. This user likes drinking beer from a pint jug This user loves barbecue. This user plays the 5-string banjo. This user is a fan of Merle Haggard This user loves Martin Scorsese movies. This user loves the Westerns of John Ford This user loves films by David Lynch.

Interests

This user is interested in German intellectual history This user loves the philosophy of Immanuel Kant This user is interested in philosophical hermeneutics. This user is interested in the history of law. This user is interested in ancient civilizations. This user is interested in ancient Greece. This user is interested in the history and origin of Latinity. This user is interested in the Roman Republic. This user is interested in Late Antiquity. This user is interested in the Early Middle Ages. This user is interested in the Middle Ages. This user is interested in the Protestant Reformation. This user is interested in the history of the English Civil Wars. This user is interested in the history of the United States. This user is interested in the French Revolution. This user is interested in the Haitian Revolution. This user is interested in the industrial revolution. This user is interested in the British Empire. This user is interested in the Cold War. This user is interested in the digital revolution. 這個用戶對中國歷史感興趣。 这个用户对中国历史感兴趣。 This user is interested in Chinese history. This user is interested in Eastern Christianity. This user is interested in the history of Christianity. This user is interested in Benedictine spirituality. This user is interested in Germanic languages. This user is interested in Indo-European languages. ✡This user is interested in Judaism. ﷲThis user is interested in Islam. This user loves math. This user is interested in alchemy.

Views

This user is influenced by Augustine of Hippo. This user is influenced by John Henry Newman. This user is a fan of the political principles of Alexis de Tocqueville. This user is influenced by Thomas Carlyle. This user is influenced by Hannah Arendt. 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 likes Andrew Jackson. This user greatly admires Abraham Lincoln. This user likes William Jennings Bryan and is sad that he lost the 1896 election. This user greatly admires Teddy Roosevelt and his Big Stick. This user would have voted for “Fighting Bob” LaFollette in the 1924 election This user admires many aspects of Huey Long's legacy, and recognizes his impact on the 1936 election. This user is a fan of Richard Nixon. This user supported Bernie Sanders for the 2016 United States Presidential Election. This user supports Donald Trump in the 2024 election. This user believes that every nation has an inherent right of national sovereignty. This user is in favor of restricting immigration, whether legal or illegal. This user believes that nations ought to guard the interests of native-born citizens first and foremost. This user is interested in moral realism. This user is a (neo-)Platonist. This user knows that G. W. F. Hegel was a genius. This user's favorite pre-Socratic is Heraclitus. This user is influenced by Wilhelm Dilthey. This user agrees with Larry Sanger's views on NPOV, but encourages you to form your own opinion after carefully reading his article.

Books

This user is an admirer of Borges. This user enjoys the works of the Brontë sisters. 1.618... This user is under the influence of Philip K. Dick. This user enjoys the weird fiction of Lord Dunsany. WFThis user enjoys the works of William Faulkner. This user enjoys the works of Thomas Hardy This user enjoys the weird fiction of William Hope Hodgson. This user enjoys the ghost stories of M. R. James. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. This user is a fan of John Keats. This user enjoys the work of Stanisław Lem. This user reads the works of H. P. Lovecraft. This user enjoys the weird fiction of Arthur Machen. This user thinks that Herman Melville is the greatest American novelist. This user enjoys the poetry of R. S. Thomas. This user enjoys the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. This user is a Bible reader. This user has read 11 of William Shakespeare's plays. This user has read Capital Volume 1. This user likes to read reference books, like encyclopedias and atlases.

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 supper, 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 ten 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 (I am a highly ecumenical Catholic convert, formerly an Anglican and in many ways still shaped by the Protestant tradition), a twelfth-generation Appalachian, and an ex-Marxist who was so entranced by After Virtue that I now would call myself a paleoconservative 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, German idealism, Alexis de Tocqueville, Søren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, T. S. Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Christopher Lasch, and Giorgio Agamben.

When it comes to art, I am a great fan of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Northern Renaissance, Primitivism, and American Regionalism. In music, I have basically comprehensive knowledge when it comes to country music, and am also a great fan of American folk, Delta/acoustic blues, ragtime, and bop/post-bop jazz. My favorite poet is R. S. Thomas, and my favorite novels are Absalom, Absalom! and A Canticle for Leibowitz.

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