Perhaps you’ve hazarded an attempt to express, to a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-right Republican partisan, why you think a humane society, a system that is set up to include everyone, — is best for everyone. I have. The outcome is similar to pivoting, only to smash your forehead into a concrete abutment. Nietzsche, in his prologue,…
I want to write another book. Laura insists that I get the first one published. She is right. Nevertheless I’d like to engage the fabulous fable penned by Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra. The story is surreal, a prescient foretelling, a projection of the course of the West. Zarathustra is a hermit-like individual whose season…
In our everyday, public way of being,we have fallen awayfrom the innermost ground of our being,and the most finite thingin our finitude has been concealed from us. The radical nullity of Dasein (existence),of being held out into Nothingis forgottenin the courseof relating to beings; with great peace of mindwe hurry to the superficial domains…
The edifices guard the fourfold. They are things that in their own way preserve the fourfold.To preserve the fourfold, to save the earth, to receive the sky, to await the divinities, to escort mortals-this fourfold preserving is the simple nature, the presencing, of dwelling. In this way, then, do genuine buildings give form to…
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” — Kierkegaard Well, which is it, what fate am I going to choose? To dare is to lose for the moment. Choose not, – and you lose yourself. Frankly I do not know if a “choice” at all is…
In years past I read The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien. His work is literature that changed my life, with painterly scenes that I’ll never forget. Tolkien’s ideas and ideals are still warm within my psyche. Worth noting too, Peter Jackson captured the power of the Middle Earth saga in cinema…
Raining outside, a gentle spring rain and the sky is overcast. There are days like this, to remind that every cloud has a silver lining. The wildflower seeds that I scattered yesterday are responding, as I write, to the H²0 that moistens, softens the outer covering. The inner living kernel will activate soon… Stay…
More thoughts from Nietzsche? Rumination on types of nihilism? Topics, all relevant to day-to-day life, which I intend to examine. On the other hand this remarkable collection of insights came my way. The current condition of America is described by the envelopment of the old Republican Party by the Trump movement, and his accession…
I offer some lines and phrases from the story-poem Stardust by Hisham Bustani. Tired of turning the dials of history. I LOOK AT THEM: they are motionless and shackled, sap sucked dry, faces covered with imbecilic smiles. Who are these people… (First answer) Physical systems change…from highly ordered to more disordered. Entropy The entropy…
Yesterday was an unofficial American national holiday. The final game of the NFL season was held in New Orleans, The Super Bowl. Ostensibly the athletic championship is a thin pretext for one of the most expensive marketing spectacles of the year, fueled by many of our largest companies. The component of sport is a…
