A Man Among Men
When unable to multiply words for your exposition, use the minimum viable words. Use aphorisms.
When unable to multiply words for your exposition, use the minimum viable words. Use aphorisms.
We may speak in part but we live in full. The mistake modern society makes is to assume that because we speak in part, we also live in part. This is the foundation of fragmentation.
Fragmentation is why the pupil who just finished a mathematics lecture does not understand how language is algebraic and chemistry is formulaic. Years later, the same student asks on Twitter "why don't they teach critical thinking in schools?" Don't reply to him.
The force of utopia is to take the ideal state of being and declare it authoritative and binding on everyone involved, including unbelievers. This allows for persecution in the name of the greater good. Distrust utopians who love to persecute; trust utopians who are not afraid to be martyrs. Kudos to Christianity.
Perhaps the last thing that separates mere ideology from religion is in their relationship with their respective utopias. The communist imagines what their dream job will be in the utopia. Many of them wait for the appointed time before they attempt to live that way. Meanwhile, religions ask you to begin living now, how you might live in paradise or eternity. And that is faith. If you do not believe in your utopia enough to live as though you already had it, we who are unbelievers at this point in time do not have to believe your course worthy of our conversion. Here, the measure of persecution one is willing to suffer for their utopia is a signal.
The duty of the aristocracy: to bring the distant vision — which is far away from the immediate interest of the masses — closer to where they can see. That is, bringing the out of reach within a distance of contemplation. There is no abolishing the proletarian without the intervention of the vanguard — who are really bourgeoisie.
Humanities vs Social sciences: the sociologist studies man as if he lives apart from man or as if he himself is not a man. The humanitarian — read as literary writers, poets, dramatists, songwriters, fiction writers, and essayists — studies man because he is a man, lives as a man, and lives with men. Listen to the man, not the job title.
The only man who should be allowed to speak about men is the man who knows he is a man living among men. Men who speak like they are above men or as if men are beneath them should not be allowed such privilege.
True to Pericles, you may not be interested in politics but politics will sure take an interest in you. Nevertheless, that the political is personal (or that man is a political animal), does not necessarily mean that the personal is always political.
By performing all of life as a political fandango, where politics is the means by which we resolve the conflict of interests, the individual becomes a cog in the wheel. He is void of solitude; reflection; contemplation; of an inner voice. There may be agitation to him, but there is no vitality in him. Lacking rest or respite, he becomes currency for the power-hungry; spent for their cause without regard for his life.
One cannot be and should not be as dead to algebra as Ms. Kristen Lyverly who insists that a miscarriage is the same as an abortion because “the medical term for a miscarriage is ‘spontaneous abortion’.”
It is in the sense of a character’s ability to bear more than one value that we have algebra. It is in the nature of algebra to vary - to represent more than one article of value. You may substitute different values for an algebraic set. But the representative variable - the set - remains intact. Our language, behaviours, and actions are by their nature, algebraic.
You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese.
My philosophy of insults: be more interested in amusing yourself than in hurting the other person. That way, you can call someone a living breathing Gordian knot of letters.
When three generations of boys — son, father, grandfather — are reclining under a shed in the cool of the day, one does not see money changing hands or find any exchange of vague vulgar value happening. All one sees is Dom Torretto smiling and saying “nothing is more important than family.”
Do you drink water? So did Hitler. You know what to do.
Of course, here is your meme for the week. Like the birds, be patient; like the car owner, clean your car with delight.
Have a delightful week