Moral beauty dissolves very rapidly into sententiousness
(given to or abounding in aphoristic expression or excessive moralizing terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression.
THE ONE WRITER - Camus, who evoked love in his readers
Kafka arouses pity and terror, Proust and Gide respect, Joyce admiration, but no writer
evoked love is his readers like Camus as he rejected all religious and the pathos of moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
in the last years he didn't become deranged by German philosophy, or Anglo Saxon empiricism, he didn't subside into Religion
or bourgeois humanitarianism - that quasi Religion,
he died incarnating that feeling of nobility
PERVERSITY IS THE MUSE OF MODERN LITERATURE
TODAY literature is full of mad lovers, gleeful rapists, castrated sons, but very few normal
husbands daughters, sons, modern liteRATURE IS OVER SUPPLIED WITH SUCH GHOULISH
LITERARY TASTE
The defiantly aggressive ideology expressed in the metaphor of the avant garde
Will it mean that we have to read novel at the least twice to understand it less we are tarred
with the brush of philistinism, or even worse derriere garde
(behind the times) in our maladroit exegesis of the precious text
Destiny in lower case
Writers who concentrate their efforts what they believe is the essential is more than not
inessential that provides ease of access for the reader, lack of rigor, the common place, the minute, the transient.
No lack of embarressment in the NOVEL
The NOVEL should blush but it does not because it remain intransigently arriere garde
(behind and of date)
The psycho analytical failure to protect the patient
The psycho analytical failure to protect the patient against the political and cultural ravages of society which got her/him there in the first place
a REVISED bland FREUDIANISM which passes for Freud in the US today
a REVISED bland FREUDIANISM which passes for Freud in the US today
it can be seen in discussion with faux INTELLECTUALS, television, Broadway etc
THE PRIMACY OF THE INTELLECT THAT FREUD REFERS TO AS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IDEAL
..THE PESSIMISTIC VIEW OF SEXUALITY WHICH IN FREUD'S VIEW WAS 'LOWER'
WHERE AS ART AND SCIENCE ARE 'HIGHER'
WHAT FREUD REFERS TO AS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IDEAL IS
THE PRIMACY OF THE INTELLECT
"the idea that God incarnates himself in MAN/WOMAN
.
embody or represent (a deity or spirit) in human form:"the idea that God incarnates himself in man"SUBLIMATION AND SELF REPRESSION WHICH ARE INCARNATED IN MODERN MAN
Ttth
The psychology of immanence The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world. It is held by some philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence. Immanence is usually applied in monotheistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that the spiritual world permeates the mundane. It is often contrasted with theories of transcendence,
rather than the
eschatology
the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind:"Christian hope is concerned with eschatology, or the science of last things"of transcendence
the erasure of secularism in French schools
The ARTICLE BELOW APPEARED IN THE French newspaper Le Figaro
in Paris, a principal resigned, threatened with death after asking three young girls to remove their veils - in the besieged sanctuary that the school has become.
The defeat is overwhelming, but the affair remains in reality sadly banal: the official reports, and in particular the latest alarming work of the Senate, perfectly show the erasure of secularism and the values of the Republic in schools as the progression of endemic violence in all establishments, from primary school onwards continues
A friend claims '...look forward to many more 'porky pies' from Biden's befuddled brain'
A friend of mine points out...How Biden fabricates all in the cause of his own self enchancement
- a collapsed Bridge is the opportunity to bring the focus
back on himself,,,,'...I went over that Bridge by RAIL countless times'
duh?.... there is no rail,
the friend continues...'people who have a need for grandiosity will inevitably lie or add a gruesome detail (was eaten by cannibals) to get their attention, the friends goes on
'...this kind of behaviour is pathologically driven ....so look forward to many more 'porky pies' (English slang for 'lies') in the future
Not sure I agree with all my friend claims but it gives one pause for thought.
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.ready to launch ourselves into the next battle of egos - call a truce I say....
There are many of us are perpetually in training...ready to launch ourselves into the next battle of egos - call a truce I say....
Are some of us unredeemed by the the slightest tinge of self-respect
Are some of us unredeemed by the the slightest tinge of self-respect
for some of us when we reflect on on past our lack of self esteem
is obscene
wHY MUST WE GO THROUGH REPEATED ORDEALS TO PROVE OURSELVES?
WHY must we be like the bullfighter and risk being emotionally gored
why risk self laceration through continued self exposure?
use your experience not as a bull fight but as a form of Quarry,
For creative writing use your experience not as a bull fight but as a form of Quarry, which you return to mine the precious minerals
women often tolerate doubtful qualities in a lover which they would not in a husband
In exchange for the infusion of intense feeling and dangerous sensations notoriously tolerate moodiness selfishness, unreliability
and most of all obsessiveness on both sides of the bed
LOVE as one more dance of the SOLITARY EGO
wHAT ONE TAKES TO BE AN ATTACHMENT TO ANOTHER PERSON MIGHT BE VIEWED AS ONE MOREDANCE OF THE SOLITARY EGO.
THIS EXHORTATORY VIEW MIGHT BE VIEWED AS SELF REPROACHFUL, OR OF ONE WHO WAS 'UNLUCKY' IN LOVE
HOW MANY PEOPLE ACCEPT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN LOBOTOMISED BY THEIR 'SMART' PHONES?
WHY ARE WE SO FEARFUL OF ELON MUSK'S BRAIN IMPLANTS
WHEN WE RECEIVE BRAIN IMPLANTS ON A DAILY BASIS
THE cult of LOVE in the West is an aspect of the cult of SUFFERING
Christianity from its inception is the ROMANTIC RELIGION
THE cult of LOVE in the West is an aspect of the cult of SUFFERING
SUFFERING AS THE SUPREME TOKEN OF SERIOUSNESS HOWEVER ATTENUATED
OR SECULARIZED A FORM
FOR 2000 YEARS IN WESTERN CULTURE IT HAS BEEN FASHIONABLE TO EMBRACE PAIN
WELL DIDN'T JESUS /CHRIST NAILED TO THE CROSS SET AN EXAMPLE
LOVE is the cheapest of Religions
Pavese wrote. '...life is a jungle of self interest' he also argued that; '...life is pain and love is an anaesthetic
it follows for Pavese '...LOVE is the cheapest of Religions.'
What do we wish to find when we get the chance to read someones Diary?
What we usually or might get is an account of Exquisite sources of suffering, sexual adventures in disloyalty, distortions of truth all tellingly told
so as the Diarist emerges as a MARTYR
There are certain modes of writing (say a Diary) who do not need truth far better to replace with a disquieting abundance of imagination
written so endearingly as if they were on the knees
of their heart.
The aesthetic lenience in admiring controversial works of ART
Disinterestedness contemplation attentiveness the awakeness sensuosness are feelings we may draw upon when observing ART because these constituents of feelings will enhance our daily life
Morality is a form of acting and not a repetoire of choices
Morality is a code of habitual acts and judgments and sentiments in which we reinforces our habits
in a certain way as we interact with other human beings in affable and considerate way.
Stop looking down - look at me so as I can see your face
T
he face is the center of gravity in any conversation. "Face to face" first and foremost reflects a principle of mutual consideration that implies reciprocal attention, unless it's inconveniencing the person receiving nothing in return. We resent people who don't look us in the face when addressing us. Individuals constantly orient their words and movements to what they perceive in their interlocutors' facial expressions, gestures, speech, voice and gaze.
The face embodies the morality of interaction, its nakedness on show, its expressiveness sometimes poorly concealing mishaps or mutual satisfaction. It is not a body part like others, but stands out by its position, its value, its eminence in communication and, above all, the sense of identity attached to it.
we are in a ghost society where eyes are often lowered to the screen,
It's a ghost society where eyes are often lowered to the screen, even in front of others or in the streets, just like elsewhere in cafés, restaurants, waiting rooms, public transport, trains... Everywhere there is this absence of faces, of glances around, as individuals are hunched over their screens. Many people talk alone in the street or in common spaces, without fear of disturbing others. But connection, in its many forms, is not contact, something which implies a common presence and shared sensory experience.
On recognising a criminal type
What is it with criminal types?
They are usually compulsive liars, with grandiose claims.
Their language when defending themselves is usually hesitant
you could make a description of them as being a 'creepy' type
they make absurd claims about their achievements
when the reality of the damage caused by their decisions lies
in broken lives and in a catastrophe the full consequences
yet to be realised
Now Who could I be talking about?
WHYv THE GREEKS DOUBTED THE VALUE OF ART
PLATO's VIEW WAS THAT ALL ART IS A FORM OF TROMPE L'OIEL (DELUSION OF THE EYE)
and therefore a lie he does not dispute that it has a certain value, say as therapy
Aristotle thought it was medicinally useful as it serve as kind of incantatory, purgative therapy.
There are no FACTS only INTERPRETATIONS
bY INTERPRETATION I MEAN PLUCKING WHAT YOU DEEM TO BE FACTS
THAT THERE IS A CERTAIN CODE INHERING IN A COMMUNICATION, CERTAIN FACTS THAT UPHOLSTERS OUR SENSE OF CERTAINTY
THE IDEA OF CONTENT SERVES AS A FORM OF THERAPY A HINDRANCE
A NOT SO SUBTLE PHILISTINISM
Pious consensus of left wing media and politicians
Pious consensus of left wing media and politicians
they are verging on the Religious with their certainties
and the Religious element of their thinking is clearly
evident with their introduction of a quasi Inquisition
for non believers
HOW DO YOU INTERPRET INFORMATION
You look at a piece of text.../what does it mean
Someone expounds in a scholarly way at the dinner table....what is she talking about?
Now the interpretive process in you brain begins,,,is she just dis-burdening herself
I think....I will use a difficult word to match er erudition...'.could us more
exhoratory (persuasive) language?'
people excuse themselves and get up from the table
But what's the point of knowing how fast you're walking?
Walking
the poor relation of physical activity
But what's the point of knowing how fast you're walking? "The aim is to increase your aerobic capacity, lower your resting heart rate and see when you start to sweat," explained FFA coach Ali Saddedine. "It's above this threshold that walking is effective for improving endurance. Below that, it's just window-dressing, even if it's better than nothing," continued the coach. "The idea is to determine each person's pace, so as to get each person to go a little faster."
30 grams of protein at breakfast
30 grams of protein at breakfast
Gary Brecka recommends eating protein at breakfast and avoiding sugary foods. The reason ? By ingesting sugar, we increase our insulin level (the hormone that regulates our blood sugar, understand our blood sugar level). By exercising right after ingesting sugary foods, this insulin will block all forms of energy use in the body. The body will then draw first from glucose and not from fat. “In theory, this biological model is true,” comments Faïza Bossy, general practitioner and nutritionist. Except that it is a laboratory theory, difficult to apply to everyone. The elimination of fat will depend in each person on the distribution of fat, bone or muscle mass.
On the other hand, consuming proteins at breakfast reduces the blood sugar peak and prevents us from fatigue and cravings for sweets during the day. This reduces the risk of gaining weight. But protein breakfast is obviously not enough to lose weight sustainably. “A balanced nutrition is based on diversity,” recalls the doctor. The body also needs wate
When metaphors become cliches
All metaphors are in a sense language deviations, what happens is that the metaphor becomes so frequently used that it become the norm and there by a cliche.
The NORM and the DEVIANT
The NORM and the DEVIANT are not stand alone positions they are not distinct categories
the understanding of them are constantly on the move, e.g long hair for men, pre Beatles was devianbefore being integrated into the acceptably normal etc.
Structuralism teaches us to loot at the deep structures
Structuralism teaches us to look at the deep structures that underlie all cultural and communication
systems
Job stereotyping in American television advertising
studies haver shown that WOMEN were far more restricted in their range of
occupations than men . It was also noted that women in TV ads were home bound creatures
portrayed as indoor creatures whereas men were 5 time more likely to be shown in a business setting
Well, what do you expect from the male brains that enter the world of advertising.
SHAKE UP OVER MAKE UP - a refusal y women to accept an identity that is not theirs
THE no make-up look is a strategy INCORPORATED THE resistance of many young women
of painting their faces their feelings being that in accepting painting their faces they are accepting
a social identity that is not theirs
Theatre, Shock, Horror the colour of the Maid's stockings
Shock in the Theatre can be belied or undermined
Raymond Williams has written about playwrights who on first appearance
are not conservative, the discourse fo the play may be advocating
rebellon, but the dramatic forms furniture and the maids stockings
that aim for a dramatic verisimilitude inevitable enforce on us
of the unalterable solidity of the real social world.
How and What we desire
We desire what has been passed on from the 'Other' We desire what others, our parents etc
and 'desire' can only occur because we are caught up in the linguistic, sexual and social relations
the whole field of the 'other' which generate our desires.
The tyranny of meaning
We arrive at meaning, sometimes, with effortless bio, we tend overlook, or in some cases too esily disparage, the source of the meaning we are laying claim to.. But if we were to stop and endearvour
to look at the varied sources of the meaning we lay claim to...we may find how arbritary that source is
'for noting comes from nothing' (King Lear) what goes on is that that there is no origin to our
beloved meaning ....it came out , its birth came about through the another meaning as did that meaning and so on ad infinitum.
BIDEN PARASITIC ON BRIDGE THAT SERVED AS HIS Lie Detection Tool
a major Bridge collapses ....Biden views in his knee jerk way as an opportunity for grandiosity
'I did this and I did that on that bridge...'
much as we may endeavor to disentangle our selves from metaphysical thought in Religion, theology is riddled with it, we are inescapably contaminated no matter how hard we try to give it the slip.
Reality is not reflected by language Biden on the bridge that was a lie detection tool
Biden pronounces on the collapse of the Bridgehe de ms this to be a model statement
but it is no more rbal Deception t it is no more that as a Lie Detection Tool
literature an essential palliative for the failure of religious ideology
By some literati accounts literature as a s a displaced version of religion
literature an essential palliative for the failure of religious ideology
Politicians and 'cprrupt' media and their Strategic use of Evidence and their incesant babble. to promote their truth
but reality is not reflected by their language like clerics from the pulpits
their apparent meanings are not necessarily the real onES
what is required is a remorseless demystication
to decode what conceals the transmission of their messages
they have quasi moral objectives with a
supreme disregard or the vagaries of individual thought
What is required is hetreogenuous vagaries;
ca new narratolgy by influential media practitioners
of theri relation toone anothe
sun and moons
how itcomestemboy thearchetyesp fro the for the
humn desires wich gave ride tocovilisation itsel
literatre as a s a displaced version ofrelision
literature anessentailpalliative for the failreofreligiousideology
IDEOLOGIES LIKE to draw RIGID BOUNDARIES
IDEOLOGIES LIKE TO DRAW RIGID BOUNDARIES BETWEEN WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE
BETWEEN WHAT IS SELF AND WHAT IS NOT, BETWEEN SELF AND NON SELF
THEIR TRUTH AND YOUR FALSITY, HOWEVER WE CANNOT CAtAPAULT OURSELVES
IN OUR THOUGHT INTO SUCH ULTRA METAPHYSICAL REALMS OF A TRUTH CLAIM THAT
IS BEYOND
CONSIDER ONE'S OWN SOCIETY
CONSIDER ONE'S OWN SOCIETY fREEDOM, THE FAMILY, DEMOCRACY, MORAL VALUES
INDEPENDENCY AUTHORITY, POLITICS, ALL HAVE ARIVED AT THE PRESENT DAY
THROUGH OTHER MEANING OR SIGNS, THE SOURCES FROM WHICH THEY ALL FLOW.
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i AM NEVER FULLY PRESENT TO YOU, BECAUSE I USE LANGUAGE AND IT FOLLOWS
THAT MY MEANING IS ALWAYS DISPERSED BCAUSE LAGUAGE IS SOMETHING THAT i AM MADE OF RATHER THAN SOME CONVENIENT INTER PERSOANL TOOL
tThe Liberhumanist view point that all that al that cannot be reduced to the interpersonal is the humanist fallacyth
The Liberal humanist view point that all that al that cannot be reduced to the interpersonal is the
humanist fallacy - the Liberal humanist mind set who are
embarrassingly blind to alternative to new theories and the implications of its own as it lacks long perspectives.
Literary criticism should not be about another interpretation of
King Lear or endless gush about sunsets as closures but the
dialectical process is endless and in principle infinite.
Iiiassserature simply a palliative for failed Religious ideologyerature simply a palliative for failed Religious ideology?
Is literature simply a palliative for failed Religious ideology?
People often rfe to writing as 'fine' bec
People often refer to writing as 'fine' because it doesn't DRAW UNDUE attention to itself, they admire its laconic plainness
or low keyed sobriety...as opposed to jokes from the now millions
of stand up comedians, football chants, screaming headline
which are usually in your face verbally flamboyant.
ione persons; norm may be another persons deviation
If everyone used language like ;,,,'unravished bride of quietness...' that may sound poetic to us
because of its archaicism any actual language
yet any language we use is composed of differentiated according to class
region gender which by no means be neatly unified, one persons; norm may be another persons deviation
r ththe incarnation of some trantranscendental truths
Thinkers usually Russian in the 1920s in the years before the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) (before they were effectively silenced by Stalin)
a polemical group they rejected quasi mystical, the quasi theological, literature they deemed was not
pseudo religion, quasi mystical, the symbolist doctrines or the incarnation of some transcendental truths
usually means a hostility to other people's theoryity to theory usually means a hostility to other people's theory
Hostility to theory without some kind of theory, however implicit or or lacking in reflection, , we would not know what a literary piece of work is and how we were supposed to read it
Hostility to theory usually means a hostility to other people's theory
covid AI Nuclear catastrophe the end is nigh....the psycholgy of the dooms day sayers
Since the beginning of recorded history, people have been forecasting the end of the world. In biblical times, many people believed that Jesus would return in a few short years, and religions throughout the world have cautioned people to repent and prepare for the end of days for as long as there have been religions.
In modern times, with science gaining popular acceptance and doomsday scenarios falling outside the mainstream, such beliefs can seem highly unorthodox.
But the Daily Mail reports that 22% of Americans believe the world will end in their lifetime, and the belief that a religious figure will return to “save” a chosen few is still commonplace.
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