This is an interesting book. Klein is a Rhodes Scholar. Cecil Rhodes as about as hardcore, and openly a globalist elite mason as it gets. If you read his stuff it’s everywhere. He started the Rhodes Scholarship as, essentially, a way to hand-pick individuals primed to enact Rhodes’ view of the future: cliche NWO stuff. The majority of the Rhodes Scholars have gone on to do just that.
Klein is a little different. At first glance she appears to be somewhat critical of the globalists. I am reading this book to get a better idea of what she is all about.
One of those books that’s rivetting, but has absolutely no sympathetic characters. Argh. How do authors write this stuff without needing to bathe afterwards…?
Wow, I didn’t know anyone was reading that. I went through a whole course on The Experience of Freedom. I think it addled my brain. It’s one of the most linguistically dynamic pieces I’ve ever tried to read. I was not prepared for it. It requires having Kant (third antimony), Heidegger (on Kant, ontology of Being), Nietzsche (Nietzsche), Sartre (existentialism, being-in-itself, being-for-itself, being-for-others) Derrida (deconstruction) and lots of other odds and ends under one’s belt.
My professor had us do a lot of excellent secondary reading to make meaning of Nancy. If you want to know some specific background readings that make Nancy more understandable I’d be happy to give you a list.
“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (The Phenomenon of Man)
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think…of any man as damned"
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality."
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Hymn of the Universe)
The whole life lies in the verb seeing."
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Hymn of the Universe)
Reading a work by a philosopher such as Chardin who was also a scientist, is like eating Reese’s peanut butter cups - the perfect marriage of philosophy and science as to the perfect marriage of chocolate and peanut butter. Both yummy
Inside the 3rd Reich – Memoirs of Albrecht Speer. A fascinating read offering a lot of insight into authoritarian states and the people they appeal to.
star stuff contemplating star stuff …
Carl Sagan, on humankind
Yep, that’s us.
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So”
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Speaking of narcissism, one mine want to read Ovid’s poem on just that. The story of Echo and Narcissus. I always found it extremely symbolic how he turns into a beautiful flower-- all the beauty, but none of the vanity.
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I am currently on Book 22 of 24 of Homer’s Iliad, the Fagles translation. It’s beautiful. I read the Lattimore trans. a few years back, that is more scholarly. Fagle’s goes smoother for me though.
Major themes: honor and glory; mortalitly vs immortality; fate; the most despicable condtion, the lawless, stateless, hearthless man; true love. I could do on forever, any great work is going to have many major themes.
I Finished The Iliad. Now I’m reading Plato’s Republic. Translated by Allan Bloom. What did everyone think about it? I’ve read it once before so you wont spoil it for me.
but soon I will read…
