Met up with two friends this morning. Walking along the riverfront, in the presence of waterbirds congregating on the far bank, commenting on the old buildings, built by several generations before the present, the buildings rehabilitated, upgraded not only for our end use purposes, but a reminder that we are not the first to…
Shaking inwardly again this morning. The day is beautiful. For many days my life has been beautiful. There have been some dark days, dark existentially, a time when I could not foresee a way forward. Nevertheless by act of faith, absurd as it felt, I carried on. Near by were others who believed that…
Zelensky turned down a US offer of evacuation, the Ukraine Embassy in Britain said Saturday on Twitter. “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” Zelensky told the US, according to the embassy. — CNN Until his surprise election in 2019, Volodymyr Zelenskyy played a president on TV. Today, the 44-year-old is…
The tendency of all … who have ever wanted to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless. Ethics so far as it springs from the desire to say something about the ultimate meaning of life,…
All revolutions are aesthetic… Taste is power, and power is politics… So taste has enormous power to shape history. If it makes your scalp tingle, it’s art. “Bad taste is real taste, and good taste is just the residue of someone else’s privilege.” Jazz exemplifies the possibly doomed experiment of being totally free, with…
A long quotation on the role of violence, — some difficult issues consequent to deciding upon a violent act, necessary for survival. This world is a violent place. Homo Sapiens often have recourse to violence. Ask any who live in Ukraine, or who lived in Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Syria… Places wet with blood,…
We object to the inquisitors who want to create faith and virtue from without; We object to all forms of fascism which seek to fashion the happiness of man from without; And also the paternalism which thinks that it has done something for [humankind] by prohibiting him from certain possibilities of temptation, whereas what…
[Humankind] extends his control by instruments which enable him to devour distances and to multiply the output of his effort in time; but he is always and only one. However, instead of accepting his limits, he tries to do away with them. He aspires to act upon everything and by knowing everything. -excerpt the…
But the truth is that if division and violence define war, the world has always been at war and always will be; if man is waiting for universal peace in order to establish his existence validly; he will wait indefinitely: there will never be any other future. …Our hold on the future is limited;…
Someone who knows me well took me to task this week on account of my contempt for capitalism. His complaint paraphrased, – “Do you mean to say the guy operating the corner grocery down the street is an avaricious, exploiting….etc.” He and I were not in a situation to discuss the matter at length,…
