Proposition, that the clash of the desires and the demands of ethics are such that the only responsible activity is art production.
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Not a leap of faith but a faith in Fear and Trembling?
Rimbaud’s ‘disordering of the senses’, Thoreau’s ‘Wildness’ — the former seeks wilderness when, according to the senses, there is none?
… Idea of technology being a sort of ‘painting’ upon Nature rather than an outgrowth or extension of it.
…”Not a stoicism, but a contravelent force of some type against the excessive self-care that democracy will encourage (maybe, demand, require)” (Is it democracy or capitalism that is the source of our rampant self-care — individuals sticking up for themselves a social and moral good, is my belief; individuals taking anti-biotics at the first sign of cold, etc., not good)
[But I have to jujitsu all such sententious posturings: “let my pronouncements, before they issue from my face, be tumbled upon the mat, my leg thrust across their path, all their parts must be disjointed before I resume my ‘at peace’ pose”] [Also: “Let us all wrestle each other into the lotus position: let us wrestle til we face each other calmly on the mat”
“Maybe technology is a visible border, or the only one, between nature’s drives and nature’s laws.”
Writing guideline — to use, whenever possible, the name a thing gives to itself, rather than the name you would give it.
Idea that because my fears overstate my challenges, I feel more accomplished than I should, when I achieve anything.
Succinct: (Fears don’t just exaggerate difficulty; they overstate success.) boasting…
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