Blood & Rain Episode 71: “A Country Squire’s Notebook” Featuring: Paul Fahrenheidt

<p>The Southern Gothic ethos is one bathed in blood, melancholy, and an immunity to modernity. </p><p>It was born in the South’s defeat by their own blood brothers in a war that was both civil and not. </p><p>This ethos gave America a canon of literature, poetry, and plays that have defined key attributes of not only the South but America entirely: sorrowful decline due to the shortcomings of fallen mankind. </p><p>The lifespan of this movement is at its end, yet what came before it is what is closest to eternal in America. </p><p>To move to the South is to inevitably adopt Southern pleasantries, affinities for all things gentile, and a slow, steady way of life the roots of which are traditionally English.</p><p>The Southern Gothic ethos will die soon, and a founding myth will be required to move forward both as something rooted in the everlasting and something new. </p><p>Greece: The Iliad<br>Rome: The Aeneid<br>England: Paradise Lost</p><p>Virginia: “A Country Squire’s Notebook”</p><p>The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast: </p><p>Episode 71</p><p>“A Country Squire’s Notebook”</p><p>Featuring: Paul Fahrenheidt </p>