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Luigi Is the Result of a Classical Education
This is just an observation, not an opinion on the guilt or innocence of Luigi Magioni, who is innocent until proven guilty.
But if he did commit this crime, it resulted from a classical education. With no judgment on the claim, let’s just explore it.
In our country, we are falsely told that the divide is between rich and poor, or race/ethnicity.
That’s not true. If that were true, a man named Barack Obama would not have become President.
The real divide is between those who have a classical education and those who don’t. That’s how you explain President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama had a full-on classical education.
And it’s also how you explain Luigi Magioni.
A classical education focuses on the classics.
The classics are literature that focuses on heroes, anti-heroes, and villains. It weighs the nuances of all three archetypes. Usually, you find that the main characters envelop all three. An example of a character in classical literature that envelopes all three is Rodian Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. Howard Roark in the The Fountainhead. And Holden Caufield in The Catcher in the Rye.
All three of these characters are heroes, anti-heroes, and villains. And those with a…
