The co-existence of agents is obfuscated by the scientific worldview, which led to the material world in which the agency of all the entities has been made to vanish: Latour calls this “a zombie atmosphere” in which “nothing happens anymore since the agent is supposed to be ‘simply caused’ by its predecessor. All the action …
And just as Josef K. will be unable to make any sense of his own arrest, which is to say, of his own life, so too we are unable to make sense of our own, insofar as we are in the same situation as K. himself. In reading the account of K.’s ordeal, we await …
If all the elements, which we find in the totality of the 3D world, are ephemeral manifestations of creation from nothingness, then only nothingness and its infinite emptiness are the only sources of depth. This is just a logical conclusion.
In several of his works, Jung discussed the relationship between conscious and unconscious processes: “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” Jung reveals that creativity and planning often originate from a deeper, unconscious …
So much in the world is there to convince us, if only implicitly, that we are not responsible. Recently, I started looking at the messaging behind many of the basic things and activities in everyday life with this question in mind: In what way does this specific thing make me responsible or irresponsible? The alarming …
It is no wonder that the paradoxical moral logic of the Old Testament appealed to Chesterton. Even less surprising is that the concise invocation of its paradoxes in ‘The Sign of the Broken Sword’ should appeal to that other metaphysical romancer, Jorge Luis Borges. That Borges was an admirer of Chesterton is well known. Less …
If modernity is built on a refutation of the ancient world, a denial of eternity, of which Beauty was the royal road, and if modernity has arrived at last at some “final truth,” the truth that all values are subjective. Then, at the end of its history, modernity must resemble a “perfect negative” of the ancient world. The shape …
Perhaps then our closeness will increase, our lust for destruction will be tamed, and perhaps in that peace, we will gain the confidence to, with great enterprise, bring greater life to a neon polytheism, to greater and more complex nights of euphoria, to more evident poetry in the mundane, and cold beers on a summer …
Sometimes, people are hampered by a certain intimidation factor when it comes to difficult texts. They feel that they are too uneducated, haven’t read such-and-such books that ought to come before, need the for-dummies introductory version, and need someone to hold their hand while offering them a glass of milk.
If this is so, then Cohen would seem to be acknowledging human responsibility for at least part of the darkness of the world. We are not blind puppets. WE kill the flame of life in others with a free will. Man is a wolf to man, according to the proverb. A man who accuses God …
