Reblogged from Facebook:
Gun pornography is rampant. It's a lazy way of making stories, & made worse by them seeming to be realistic depictions of the world. If we were constantly seeing people LEVITATING to solve their problem, we would know it for the lie it is. Violence never solves a problem. Writers who promulgate this should be shot.
In opposing the Egregore, that claims to be the world, one does not reject the world itself but affirms it. What was transcended is only the lie. The world remains as it was, a mystery, but a mystery not impenetrable to the seeker.
If the Egregore is a thing, it is a thing only as a story is a thing. Or rather, humans' need of storying their happenstance: it calls forth story, it calls forth agreement. And it calls forth elaboration, which being inconsistent, leads to imperfect agreement. The story takes maintenance, or it fractures.
The truth of the Egregore is hidden, not because it is secret, but because it isn't.
(via @rebeccablood)
Things analysis cannot do include: discerning the limits of analysis; but also: establishing the aims & methods of analysis. Thus, inference seems "mystical" when we rely on analysis to the point where we do not even realize that the basis of actual intelligence is synthesis.
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As Wulfstan said on another occasion,
The strong net bellies in the wind and the spider rides it out;
But history, that sure blunderer,
Ruins the unkempt web, however silver.
I am not speaking of rose windows
Shattered by bomb-shock; the leads touselled; the glass-grains broadcast;
If the rose be living at all
A gay gravel shall be pollen of churches.
Nor do I mean railway networks.
Torn-up tracks are no great trouble. As Wulfstan said.
It is oathbreach, faithbreach, lovebreach
Bring the invaders into the estuaries.
Shall one man drive before him ten
Unstrung from sea to sea? Let thought be free. I speak
Of the spirit's weaving. the neural
Web, the self-true mind, the trusty reflex.
--Richard Wilbur
Because Idiocracy didn't have enough Nazis, guns, and natural disasters.Because Idiocracy didn't have enough Nazis.
Because Idiocracy didn't have enough Nazis and guns.
(via via Michael Simms on Fb)
"May 1915
Let us remember Spring will come again
To the scorched, blackened woods, where the wounded trees
Wait with their old wise patience for the heavenly rain,
Sure of the sky: sure of the sea to send its healing breeze,
Sure of the sun, and even as to these
Surely the Spring, when God shall please,
Will come again like a divine surprise
To those who sit today with their great Dead, hands in their hands
Eyes in their eyes
At one with Love, at one with Grief: blind to the scattered things
And changing skies."
--Charlotte Mew (Vox Populi via Michael Simms on Fb)
