Friday, September 25, 2015

Sociosopher

An individual who attempts to gain real, living insight, understanding and wisdom about human society.
Sociosophy - wisdom of society

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".

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

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

asleeping in time

most are unconsciously asleep in mundane time
or...
mundanely asleeping in time

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

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

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"