Hi David
what is the purpose of the mirrors?...SEX
What is the purpose of celebrity?......SEX
What is the purpose of power?..........SEX
Moving on.... those who live by their own rules, often end up as outcasts or
eccentrics if they are lucky, it's far easier to be a good worker, do your
job, go home and live a life of ease, happy in your refusal to think for
yourself. Ignorance really is bliss.
But the outcasts are the contrarians, the catalysts for change, we don't pay
them enough attention, true , free thinkers, adrift from mainstream society.
"tune in or drop out"
The renaissance man, ( an individual with ARETE )once the ideal, is now
punished for not being a specialist, not having tunnel vision, this is a
real problem in science where the greatest so called experts have trouble
seeing a fw degrees beyond their narrow field of expertise, and are thus
hampered in seeing this knowledge in its true context.
the mirrors are hard at work here, the mirrors ideal is for us to all have
the same reflection, but even the mirrors know this subconciously is not
good for society, there has to be some differentiation, but just enough to
be useful.
Not so much as to be free from the need of mirrors.
" the happiest man will look into the mirror, and see himself exactly as he
is" Albus Dumbledore
What is the Giant? it's "the hedge at the bottom of the garden" , " the not
self " as Huxley said ?
Many kind regards
Rod
on 14/3/02 6:08 am, David Buchanan at DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org wrote:
> Hey MOQers:
>
> They say that intelligence is being able to read between the lines. So here
> I give you just the lines, without commentary for now.
>
> "Its like a hall of mirrors at a cannival where some mirrors distort you one
> way and some distort you another. Already he'd seen three completely
> different mirror reflections this week: from Rigel, who reflected an image
> of some kind of moral degenerate; from Lila, who reflected a tedious old
> nerd; and now Redford who was probably going to cast him into some sort of
> heroic image. Each person you come to is a different mirror. ... Maybe
> mirrors are all you ever get. First the mirrors of your parents, then
> friends and teachers, then bosses and officials, priests and ministers, and
> maybe writers and painters too. ... But what controls all these mirrors is
> the culture: the Giant, the gods; and if you run afoul of the culture it
> will start throwing up reflection that try to destroy you." P254
>
> "SOM presumes that all these mirrors are subjective and therefore unreal and
> unimportant, but that presumption, like so many others, seems to
> deliberately ignore the obvious." P255
>
> "But in a value-structured universe celebrity comes roaring to the front of
> reality as a huge fundamental parameter. It becomes an organizing force of
> the whole social level of evolution. ... It was crazy. People going over
> Niagara Falls in a barrel and killing themselves just for the celebrity of
> it. Assassins murdering for it. Maybe the real reason nations declared war
> was to increase their celebrity status. ... That's what writing was invented
> for. When you read the Rig Veda, the oldest religious literature of the
> Hindus, what are they talking about? .. This is interpreted as devotion to
> God, but the celebrity is obvious." P256
>
> "All the badges and trophies, all the blue ribbons, all the promotion up the
> business ladder, all the elections to "high office", all the compliments and
> flattery of tea parties and cocktail parties (And DMB adds, all the internet
> discussion groups) are celebrity enhancements. All the feuding and battling
> for prestige among academic and scientists. All the offense at "insults".
> All the face of the Orient. Celebrity. Celebrity. ... In fact you can
> measure the quality of a university by comparing the relative strengths of
> the celebrity patterns and the intellectual patterns." P257
>
> "But there is another way - in diametric opposition to that of social duty
> and the popular cult. From the standpoint of the way of duty, anyone in
> exile from the community is a nothing. From the other point of view,
> however, this exile is the first step of the quest. ... The image of man
> within is not to be confounded with the garments. We think of ourselves as
> Americans, children of the twentieth century, Occidentals, civilized
> Christians. Yet such designations do not tell what it is to be man, they
> denote only the accidents of geography, birth-date, and income. What is the
> core of us? What is the basic character of our being? The asceticism of the
> medieval saints and of the yogis of India, the Hellenistic mystery
> initiations, the ancient philosophies of the East and of the West, are
> techniques for the shifting of the emphasis of individual consciousness away
> from the garments. No man can return fron such exercises and take very
> seriuosly himself as Mr So-and-so of Such-and-such a township, USA - Society
> and duties drop away." JC's Hero 385-6
>
> "All of which is far indeed from the contemporary view; for the democratic
> ideal of the self-determining individual, the invention of the power-driven
> machine, and the development of the scientific method of research, have so
> transformed human life that the long-inherited, timeless universe of symbols
> has collapsed. In the fateful, epoch-announcing words of Nietzches's
> Zarathustra: "Dead are all the Gods". It is the hero cycle of the modern
> age, the wonder story of mankind's coming to maturity. ... It is not only
> that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and
> microscope: there is no such society any more as the the gods once supported
> The social unit is not the carrier of religious content, but an
> economic-political organization in hard and unremitting competition for
> material supremacy and resources. Isolated societies, dream-bounded within a
> mythologically charged horizon, no longer exist except as areas to be
> exploited. And within the progressive societies themselves, every laast
> vestige of the ancient human heritage of ritual, morality, and art is in
> full decay" JC 387
>
> "he lines of communication between the conscious and unconscoius zones of
> the human psyche have all been cut, and we have been split in two. The
> hero-deed to be wrought is not today what it was in the century of Galileo.
> Where then there was darkness, now there is light; but also where light was,
> there is now darkness. The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to
> bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated soul." JC 388
>
> "The metaphysics of substance makes it difficult to see the Giant." Lila
> P217
>
> Keyboard slapping courtesy of DMB.
>
>
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