“Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas” — Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“Addicted to the flux, addicted to the acceptance and subsequent rejection of powerful ideas.”
Belief that the universe is governed is a form of faith… therefore science is not free of faith
“For western culture, the best, the end of the path, is reaching the totality of the discourse. For buddha, the end of the path is reaching silence.” — Luce Irigaray
“Dangerous moments are coming. Dangerous moments are always also a chance to do something. But in such dangerous moments, you have to think, you have to try to understand. And today obviously all the predominant narratives — the old liberal-left welfare state narrative; the post-modern third-way left narrative; the neo-conservative narrative; and of course the old standard Marxist narrative — they don’t work. We don’t have a narrative. Where are we? Where are we going? What to do? You know, we have these stupid elementary questions: Is capitalism here to stay? Are there serious limits to capitalism? Can we imagine a popular mobilization outside democracy? How should we properly react to ecology? What does it mean, all the biogenetic stuff? How to deal with intellectual property today? Things are happening. We don’t have a proper approach. It’s not only that we don’t have the answers. We don’t even have the right question.” — Slavoj Zizek
“Madness is confusion of levels of fact… . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.” — William Burroughs
“I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment she can furnish me, though at the risk of endless iteration. I milk the sky and the earth.” — – Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1817-1862
Two Forms of Existence (image via Olli Kekäläinen)
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.—Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Burroughs and Bowie.
Leif Podhajsky, from the Psychonaut series
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Looking south along Fifth Avenue, New York City, year unknown (but after 1931, of course).
The lead up is this
Breaking story now up at True/Slant.
Yeah, I hate being the bearer of bad news.