An individual who attempts to gain real, living insight, understanding and wisdom about human society.
Sociosophy - wisdom of society
50+. "Ach, es ist schwer, diese Gottesspur zu finden inmitten dieses Lebens, das wir fuhren, inmitten dieser so sehr zufriedenen, so sehr bürgerlichen, so sehr geistlosen Zeit, im Anblick dieser Architekturen, dieser Geschäfte, dieser Politik, dieser Menschen. Wie sollte ich nicht ein Steppenwolf und ruppiger Eremit sein inmitten einer Welt, von deren Zielen ich keines teile, von deren Freude keine zu mir spricht?" -- from Hesse's Steppenwolf
Friday, September 25, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
Nietzsche contra Emerson
in mid May 1832 Emerson wrote in his journal:
"I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos."
Nietzsche would later say "Abyss".
"I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos."
Nietzsche would later say "Abyss".
Monday, April 27, 2015
"I am proud to be..."
pride in being a member of some group: racial, ethnic, religious, national, sexual,...has about as much substance, seriousness and meaning as saying "I am proud to be a human being".
a person so proud has done little to nothing for this status, and it is often just a shallow, thoughtless social substitute for those who cant be proud of their individual acts
a person so proud has done little to nothing for this status, and it is often just a shallow, thoughtless social substitute for those who cant be proud of their individual acts
Friday, April 17, 2015
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Zuckerberg and the Crystal Palace
Zuckerberg's realistic kid-idealism of connecting the entire world and all of humanity via/with the internet is the direct -- if naive, unconscious and unreflective -- continuation of the summery Crystal Palace of which Dostoyevsky wrote his winter impressions.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
musical pollution
most commercial advertising pollutes the air and the human psyche by the music it ab-uses
traveling in history
traveling in History
travailing in History
Grand Tours in History
explorations in History
returning more deeply and broadly experienced, knowledgeable and wisened
travailing in History
Grand Tours in History
explorations in History
returning more deeply and broadly experienced, knowledgeable and wisened
Friday, March 13, 2015
emotion map
an anthropography of emotions:
a study of which emotions, where, when, to what degree lead men and women
from fear through ecstasy
a study of which emotions, where, when, to what degree lead men and women
from fear through ecstasy
Dante beyond Jefferson ...and the pursuits of...
"...that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness,..."
the pursuit of Knowledge
the pursuit of Wisdom
the pursuit of Truth
the pursuit of "God"
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