On Thursday January 31st, 2019 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon

will air a discussion on the life and work of Victorian Age British

artist and writer William Morris (1834-1888) on the modern Hermetic

revival. Morris was a Renaissance man of many talents. An Oxford scholar

who idealized and romanticized the medieval period and yearned to

recreate Camelot in the modern era. He was appalled by the pollution,

social misery and esthetic mediocrity caused by the industrial

revolution and he believed that Karl Marx held the key to creating a

utopia (although Morris admitted that he could not understand Marx) But

we need to understand Morris in order to fathom the continuing

fascination our cultural elite have for Marx's continually failing

system. So, come with us back to the Gas-light era and we will see where

a lot of today's progressive ideas got started.