“We later civilizations, we too know we are vulnerable.” Valery abut 1900
I’ve been reading Toynbee, clear, fun to read, , helful on the decline and response of civilizations. He chunks civilizations in a not quite accurate but very suggestive ways. If Sorokin is right, we are in for a good time as we move fom a materialist to a more spiritualpychlogical age. Digitalization dematerializes mind. > On Oct 31, 2021, at 7:32 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > > If there would be a list of writers, thinkers and scientists who are not > getting the public recognition they deserve, who would you put on top of that > list? Ernest Becker? Pitirim Sorokin? Paul Valery? > > “My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with > itself!” > ~ Paul Valéry > > "Becker came to believe that individual character is essentially formed > around the process of denying one's own mortality, that this denial is a > necessary component of functioning in the world, and that this > character-armor masks and obscures genuine self-knowledge. Much of the evil > in the world, he believed, was a consequence of this need to deny death" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Becker > > -J. > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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