Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
>
> Brad,
[snip]
> We don't need explainers or
> apologists for this terrible system which gets its fame off of the fact that
> it is not run by Hitler or the Marquis de Sade (Stalin). But
> intellectually bankrupt it most assuredly is.
I certainly do not disagree with this. To quote Hermann Broch
from 1930:
...a community of life that has ceased to justify its existence,
a so-called community devoid of force but filled with evil
will, a community that drowns itself in blood and chokes in its
own poison-gases...
(_The Sleepwalkers_, p.646)
Obviously there numerous other references to the same effect.
>
> "no matter how you strive, earth's but a barren tree,
> but I, ahoy, with my salt songs shall force the flower!
> Fold up your aprons, craftsmen, cast your tools away,
> fling off Necessity's firm yoke, for Freedom calls.
Is this an exhortation to craftspersons or to alienated
labor-ers? Hopping around is one form of freedom.
I think that creating a Meisterstuck is another form of
freedom -- one I would the more frequently choose.
> Freedom is but a scornful, lonely song the wind has taken.....
> Come, drink of Lethe's brackish spring to cleanse your minds,
> forget your cares, your poisons, your ignoble profits,
> and make your hearts as babes,
(but please, unlike babes, use the toilet and flush after you go!)
> unburdened, pure and light.
> Old men, howl all you can to bring your white teeth back,
Decay is bad, but patina I think is not bad.
Also, professional football players are in the prime of
life but not all of them still have their teeth.
> to make your hair crow-black, your youthful wits go wild,
> for by our Lady Moon and our lord sun,. I swear
> old age is a false dream and Death by fantasy......" (Kazantzakis)
Lucky who can have this perspective on aging!
>
> What more do you have to lose? You have nothing more to lose,
> Tell the Truth!
[snip]
That is true: The older one is, the less harm telling the
truth can do to one. Socrates didn't really sacrifice much (esp.
if he secretly knew he had not-yet-symptomatic cancer or something).
Carpe diem!
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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