Dear Learners,
I shall soonest compose a rich picture for my dear Jessica, but first I
have to await word for a last glassed emergence so that I may clean the
brushes I shall need.
In the meantime;-)
A (The deleted) Future Value of Spontaneity...ambling thoughtednesses
"The living deed and the spoken word are the greatest achievements mankind
is capable of. Aristotle's energia ("actuality") as all activities that do
not pursue an end ateleis and leave no work behind par' autas erga, but
exhaust their full meaning in the performance itself. Both seeing and
flute playing are examples in Nicomachean Ethics, in this way the
performance is both life and work joined. Modernism since the seventeenth
century has derided this idea and turned men into machines. This way to
life (Telos) has been degraded and was implied in Adam Smith's Wealth of
Nations when he classified all occupations that rest essentially on this
'specialized performance', with the menial services as the lowest and most
unproductive labour. It was once these very occupations like healing,
flute playing and play-acting that furnished ancient thinking with
examples for the highest and greatest activities of man." (Arendt)
Loving the World is also Telos. by another name.
Bateson warned against the fallacy of ....separating "I' from all else and
writing that "organization" "self" and "environment" are abstractions,
reifications of phenomena and forms. By another name
Bateson did a nice thing about 'grass and men'..."All men are grass...."
By another name
"A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How
could I answer the child?...I do not know (do knot no;-) what it is any
more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of
hopeful green stuff woven."
Walt Whitman. By another name
- A science of land health needs, first of all, a base datum of normality,
a picture of how healthy land maintains itself as an organism (Bateson?)
By another name
In the UK maybe as many as twenty percent of children show signs of
"clinical mental illness and associated behaviour." by another name
The logic of fuzzy boundaries;-) assumes importance now that the walls of
the asylum expand daily to accommodate the majority of our inheritors. By
another name
We say quite openly our cows are mad, they have mad cow disease. By
another name
There is a calf in the fields we met last night, I looked into the star
called eye and spoke with this dumb and maddened creature with a
compassioned gaze, he stared me back with a frozen eye and I questioned
myself, who(se species) is the more mad, he or eye? By another name
Words, words, words. By another name
Energia, LOVE. by another name
Datum in a curved world. By another name
Love,
Andrew By another name
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