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…
Unaccountably I woke an hour before the alarm. Better to get an early start on a Friday than to insist upon sleep, when already awake. So with ample time at Starbucks, I read a three page commentary that I found on the internet which treats Truth and Lies Beyond Morality. I regret that I…
Here we go again! It seems that yesterday’s train of thought is not finished. Hang on! There’s a sharp, banked curve just ahead! No apology for the roller coaster metaphor… The creative act is a moment of Becoming itself and thus entails the most intimate unity of an individual and actuality. In such a…
…the Artisten-Metaphysik suggeststhat individuals are alienatedfrom actuality, the synchronicity of the terms suffering, willing, and becomingimplies that the experience of alienationspeaks not so much to humanity’sisolation from actualitybut of the point ofits most intimate unionwith it: ‘This world is will to power — and nothing besides!And you yourselves are also this will to power…
It is Monday. Am I “in the groove” of a first work-day of the week? “Work” in my case no longer involves customers, employees, contractors, scheduling and profit. Where has destiny, the complicated twists and turns of circumstance, and of people led me, – what is “on my plate,” what I must do? That…
Thinking about Ennui. It becomes clear that a response to ignorance, to the ill-will of sexism, to racism, to homophobia, and to tribalism, is to withdraw from excruciating pain. Ennui is the response of shock, an inward cringing, a “just too much” at the horror. This is a normal, healthy sign that one remains…
An old friend wrote about the topic of Ennui on his blog The Cage. I and others have known first hand this persistent sense of malaise. Ennui is personal, a condition of soul that is beyond any abstract focus of interest. Speaking personally, a confluence of climate disruption resulting from runaway capitalism, and the…
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…
My intention has been to learn more about Stoicism. Stoicism was (and is) a point of view as well as a practice located in history 4th century BC. Zeno of Citium facilitated a gathering on Stoa Poikile, the painted porch on the north side of the Athenian market place. This view that you are…
