When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People
I'm coming out of the closet here, BE: I consider post
enlightenment, age of reason, modern, post modern—
however you want to characterize the "age" (spirit of
the times, zeitgeist...whatever) as SPHINXED.
I’m living in my Neo Dark Ages—I admit it: darkened
by the brilliance of my rationalism, humanism, Towering
Babel-ism (you know: collective humanistic efforts to bridge
heaven and earth and thus make the world a better place
in our humanistic terms of desire)
"Neither logic nor sermons convince," my favorite (for the
time being for the times) Whitman quote. I can see IT
going round and round in the wonderful response to your
articles in TIKKUN. Applying logical argument, facts &
reason to what transcends is a kind of Tarbaby or Chinese
Finger Trap. Tightens and Tightens. Stuck and Stucker.
Rationalizing the Irrational—I’m like Jack Horner sitting
in a corner eating my mincemeat pie, stick in a thumb,
pull out a plumb & what a good boy am I.
ill. As Wm. Blake says--If a fool persist in his folly, he
becomes wise." Which is my very aim: my pursuit of
knowledge and intellectual freedom. And "the road of
excess “ (he claims), “leads to the palace of wisdom."
Blake is reassuring if not particularly "humanistic" --know
what I mean? His notions don’t appeal to the "goodies" of
which they are with us always. Just describing here.
Not judging.
"Original Sin"--a beautiful notion left out of the figurations &
configurations formatting & reformatting Sphinxed Humania.
Archimedes could leverage a bundle of explanation & because
& affect hoisting a world if not universe off of this solid
I bet you five dollars.
“When new technologies offering improved value to consumers are
released into the ecosystem of an existing industry, they always
disrupt existing business relationships.” (Downes, The Law
of Disruption.)
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