a new understanding of today, time and space.

Well put.

I have my usual reservations of course but this encompasses a frame of mind that allows any particular individual considerably more options in their life. As opposed to those who insist that not only is there an overarching meaning to life but that they have come to embody it. Meaning that their options revolve solely around doing either the right or the wrong thing.

Of course in believing this it becomes the foundation upon which their comfort and consolation rests. No small thing. But their options are no less circumscribed [even circumvented] by subscribing to one or another rendition of The Way.

God or No God.

Peter, John-

How could we get to the point where we would avoid paying rent?

That is now up to 50% of the cost of living wages.

Another 15-20% goes for transportation

Leaving about 30% for food, medical, dental, insurances, retirement, entertainment, cosmetics and hair care, travel, and clothes’ purchase and cleaning.

A lot of people would resent any help here, for they own their own homes, and pay only taxes and utilities.

Would free universal 'projects be the answer?

I
I have never thought about it in these terms, only with the memory of commune-all living, as in flashbacks and dreams that occasionally come through.

I must interject, inadvertently, since I believe now, more than ever, there are at this point in the American experience, some really great potential opportunities for tremendous societal changes.

Ideally we could own something, then not have to pay as much rent for owning it.

I was thinking more in line with reasonable universal reduction in rents, with rent control across the board.

Here in. Ca its called chapter 8.
Extremely hard to qualify for. And even after that there is a very long waiting list.

this thread is open to all… feel free to offer up your possibilities…

I shall continue on…

I wonder why we don’t honor or even have anything resembling
what the ancient Greeks called “Sages”… Wise men who educated us…

now this isn’t an expert… that is something different…
we have expert on virtually everything under the sun…
but we don’t have anything like a wise man or a Sage……
or even someone we might call an educator……

why is that???

I have named my educators… Colin Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche,
Walter Kaufman, William Barrett, Goethe, Kazantzakis, Pierre Hadot,
and they are my private educators, but do we have educators that
exist for all of us?

who stands as an educator, a teacher for us all?

I would submit that in America, we have a shortage of
educators for all of us…

We might include Washington (I cannot tell a lie)
and then Lincoln (with malice toward none, with charity for all)
FDR (All we have to fear is fear itself)
MLK (Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “what are you doing for others”?)
and a second quote,
(injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere)
third quote (the ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands
at times of challenge and controversy)

what we need more of is public educators, sages, wise men…
those who guide us and advise us and educates us……

Kropotkin

Nietzsche often wrote about the concept of being a “good German”…
versus being a “good European”…….

I ask you, what does it mean to you, (and granted not all of you
are American)so what does it mean to you to be a “good”
whatever country you are from…

for me, being an American, what does it mean to be a “good American?”

and I ask, is that really the highest value we are trying to go for?
is being a “good American” really the highest possibility for us to
achieve?

I would say no…… the highest value or possibility to reach now is to
be a “good human being”…

the question revolves around this question of “good”?
what does it mean to be good?

as the concept of “good” is based on situational ethics, which means
ethics/morality depends upon the situation…

what is good in one situation isn’t good in another situation……

to be a “good” solider in war means to be able to kill a lot of the enemy…
but to kill a lot of people outside of war is “bad” even perhaps evil,
but we authorize the state to kill/execute people all the time…….
and that is suppose to be “good”? so killing depending upon the context
can be either “good” or “bad”?

so I submit that being a “good” American is in violation of being
a “good” human being…

a “good” American is about jobs, the GDP… Gross domestic Product…
achieving the “American way of life” which is the house in the burbs,
wife, two kids and a dog name spot and a cat name muffin…
this drive to be a “good American” means achieving a job with a high salary
and a new car every year, vacations to Yosemite and the Grand Canyon…

I hold that to be a “good” American means to be a “bad human being”
we must hold to value that don’t use up resources like coal, oil and
wood and other valuable resources…I would rather be a “good human being”
over being a “bad American” ……

where concern over my fellow human beings is greater then any possible
promotions or raises or titles I might get…

where I raise to a higher level of understanding my relationship with
other human beings… it is no longer enough to put my needs
and desires and wants first… that is a requirement of such ism’s
as capitalism and rugged individualism to work……… capitalism
demands greed and lust as a primary driver/motivation so it can exist…

no, we say no to such motivations/drivers… what drives me is something
more then just making money and owning fancy cars or houses or TV sets…

my concern becomes, what can I do to help and engage with my fellow
human beings?

some isms’ and ideologies are only concerned with the few, ism’s like
nationalism and capitalism and rugged individualism and fascism
and dictatorships and militarism (America second favorite ism)
and imperialism…

I reject any ism, any ism that is only concern with the few or some,
or that is limited to the a minority…

an ism must reflect us all, or it doesn’t stand for any…

thus I reject such isms as Catholicism and Buddhism
and even communism……

communism is a materialist ism/ideology… and a materialistic
ideology isn’t concern with people, only with the form of
materialism such as “dialectical materialism” ……

for in communism the belief that political and historical events
result from the conflict of social forces and are interpretable as a
series of contradictions and their solutions…….

the focus is upon those social forces and the conflict… not on human beings
and their needs and wants and desires even if the social forces are driven
by human beings and their needs…

so what does it mean to be a “good” American, (in my case but what about
your case)

I would rather be a “good Human being” instead of being a “good American”

and what say you?

Kropotkin

we live in a complicated and complex universe…
so why do many demand simple answers?

an example, MAGA… make America great again…

really? how does “making America great again” solve
any issues? in fact, what is exactly involved in "Making
America great again? which values or actions will
“make America great again?”

How does a simple and plain slogan like “MAGA”
make America great again?

it doesn’t … and anyone who buys this nonsense clearly has
no idea of the complex and complicated nature of the modern world…

in fact, most of the idea’s of MAGA make life far more difficult and
tough… for example, eliminating immigration into the U.S…
SO, who exactly is going to go out into the fields and pick
our crops? I don’t see loads of American’s rushing out to work in
the fields and pick these crops……

all over the country, our restaurants and other such retail
establishments require such help as illegal aliens to
continue the business because these business pay so badly
that they cannot attract anyone else…….

the real problem of America isn’t illegal immigration but
the degrading and disrespectful attitude toward the poorly paid workers
in America…we pay them shit and offer them nothing in the way
of respect or appreciation in the fact that they keep America running…
as shown by our ongoing pandemic in which the lowest paid people
in America has keep America going…

jobs in America has nothing to do with any sort of “dignity”
of work or the respect of people or bring people self-respect……

you want to make MAGA, pay people their worth when working such
jobs as in bars, restaurants, retail, the grocery industry……
if you want to make MAGA, then you have to pay people a living wage
and benefits… one might argue then business can’t make a profit…
so the reality is this, it is more important to make profits then it is
to have a wage that one can live on…

and that is considered to be the American way… but it fails
the test, the higher test of being a “good human being”…

we cannot babble crap about the dignity of work until we actually
treat workers with dignity… and with wages that allows them to
not only just survive but to prosper… we don’t need jobs that
we only keep because we must have health insurance…
and how many jobs don’t have health insurance?

to treat people with dignity means we offer them health insurance
even if they don’t have a job… we mustn’t force people to hold jobs
just to be able to have health insurance……

that is barbaric and not being a “good human being”

so the answers of a complicated and complex universe lies
in our engagement with making people better human beings,
then being better Americans……

to make better human beings means we no longer educate people
to become workers or consumers or producers… we no longer treat
people in an economic sense, but we treat people to become
better people…we educate people to become better human beings
with an engagement/education in Art, history, literature, paintings,
with leisure to think and contemplate what it means to be a human being…
we must, must encourage people to actually pause and contemplate
their existence to free people to become who they are…

to treat human beings as human beings instead of disposable workers……

if you want to MAGA, you have to begin with the basic concept of
treating human beings as human beings… ……

and this is not the only or final solution, it is just one of many possible
solutions to MAGA…

so how would you make America great again?

Kropotkin

as today is the last day of my vacation, 10 rather lovely
days off, tomorrow I must go back to work…
thus you shall see less of me as of tomorrow…
I shall write as time allows…

I had hope to finish “The Gay Science” by Nietzsche today,
but I may not be able to get there…I had hoped to start
Zarathustra by today…but I shall keep on plugging on in
my attempt to engage with philosophy from the beginning to
today… Nietzsche is my introduction into “Modern” philosophy……

I hope to see where Nietzsche takes philosophy to…

I am reading it like I have never read N. before…

the “Gay Science” is the first book of his works that actually fits
what Nietzsche is all about…he has his consolidating idea in which
to work his thoughts about… and that centering idea is morality…

and I can see after 120 years of thinking about morality after Nietzsche,
we still don’t have any understanding at all about what is and isn’t morality…

and ignorance is all we have to show after decades of the modern world
emergence…

Kropotkin

question? why are there no great artist working today?

answer: perhaps it is because we no longer attempt to
become a human being… perhaps we negated art when
we made becoming a worker and a producer more important
then finding out what it means to be human…

our journey determines what becomes possible……

if our journey is small and has a set destination, then
we cannot expand any further beyond that…
but if we open up our journey to see what
is possible for us, then we can learn to create
art and maybe even great ART…

what are you trying to achieve?

if you are try to sell yourself short and become
a great American, by seeking titles and wealth
and fame and material goods, you have no chance
of becoming a great human being and a great artist…

only when you seek the higher goal can you achieve the higher goal…

seek the small goal/destination, and you can only achieve a small goal…

such small goals as getting raises, getting a promotion, seeking titles
and wealth will only get you a meager goals and destination…

such a paltry achievement as wealth will negate your possibilities
of becoming human…

become someone who creates or attempts to reach for the sun…

become Daedalus or Icarus!

to seek becoming human means to reach beyond your current
possibilities and reach for that which beyond you right now…

dare to fly too close to the sun…….

or dare to become a creator… which is even more dangerous
then flying too close to the sun…

don’t play it safe… explore who you are which means exploring your
possibilities… which means it isn’t enough to be a worker or a producer
or a consumer…….the possibilities available to us Americans is sadly
lacking… become something above you… dare to greatness……
rock the boat…… make people uncomfortable… challenge
who you are and challenge who they are…

become Socrates and not a “good American”

Kropotkin

I have a few hours before I go to work…

a question has been bothering me…

Nietzsche idea of the “herd” mentality…

what exactly does this mean?

I recall during my Nietzschean days where I thought I was,
as all young men believe, that I was an Ubermensch, that I was
above the “herd” and I was superior…

the problem, one of many, is how do we know we are “superior”?

how are we to measure this “superior” nature?

How am a I to know what is the “herd” mentality, so I could
know what was “superior?”

so after a few days thought, I “think” this is the solution to
the problem of what is the herd?"

as is known, we are born, then immediately, we surrounded by
indoctrinations…for the most part, education is indoctrination…
as least in America…there is a god, America is number one,
capitalism is the greatest system on earth and other indoctrinations…
recall no proof is ever offer for these indoctrinations…
they are to be taken on faith…

at some age, we human beings might engage in some self evaluation,
we might begin the process of examining our values, to sort out
the values we were indoctrinated with and which values we actually
believe…this reevaluation of values is crucial for us to becoming
autonomous beings…

this reevaluation of value is what sorts out the autonomous individuals
and the “herd”…

the “herd” are those who never complete or begin a reevaluation of values…
the “herd” simple accepts the indoctrinations of their youth and that is their
values… America is number one… that indoctrination is a value…
a person who is part of the “herd” never doubts or challenges this “truth”…

the Ubermensch is the person who engages in their doubts and challenges
the values, the indoctrinations of their youth…

so the battle to rise above the “herd” is really a battle fought within,
it has nothing to do with any type of engagement with controlling others
or some type of power over others… the power one has is the examination
and reexamination of values that one has… what values are truly your values?
and what values were indoctrinated within you?

that is the difference between one is a Ubermensch and one who is
in the “herd”…

a reexamination of values that leads one to knowing which values are
really your values and which values you hold were indoctrinated by the
state/media/church/ society/ culture?

the difference between the “herd” and being an Ubermensch is
a battle fought between one’s ears…….

the engagement with values is what determines being an Ubermensch
and being part of the “herd”…

Kropotkin

This idea of being an autonomous person as the highest ideal
of being a person, is an enlightenment ideal…
and this was brought forth most clearly by Kant,
the last of the Enlightenment philosophers…

Nietzsche himself declared that his goal was to become
an Autonomous person…holding his own values and
then following those values… that is what is meant by
being autonomous…having one’s own values and then
following those values…

the problem I see is the problem of morality/ethics…
morality/ ethics is a collective issue… one person cannot
hold separate morality/ethics… we are a collective…
we are social creatures that can only exists collectively…

and morality/ethics is the grease that allows us to
coexists together… without any morality/ethics to guide
us, then how would we be able to coexists together?

systems, all systems have rules of some sort… we may not be able to
see or understand all the rules, but to become and hold being a system,
that system must have rules…

and human beings are no different because we to are a collection
of systems… my body is a collection of systems and my body
exists within a wide variety of systems…and every single one of
those systems have rules…

morality/ethics is just another set of rules for
how we are to engage with each other……

right now, in this very time period, we are engaged in
the transition between rules set up by a higher being,
god and rules set up by human beings, for human beings……

or said another way…

morality of the people, for the people, by the people…
instead of
morality of god, for god, by god…

this was Nietzsche goal… to create morality/ethics without any
influence of god… morality/ethics of man decided by man
and engaged with man…

the history of human beings tells us that every single moral or
ethical theory has been based on god… the bottom line of
morality has been the presence of god in some fashion…

but, as Nietzsche said, god is dead and we have killed him…
and what does that do for morality/ethics?

we must compose morality/ethics based upon some
aspect of human existence, not god or any type of religious basis…

this is in essence, a collective reevaluation of values…
we scrutinize who we are and what is possible and from
that evaluation, we can set some basis for human beings
having morality/ethics… based upon human values……

so should human morality/ethics be based upon the higher
positive values of love, hope, justice, peace, honesty, charity…
just to name a few positive values……

or should human morality/ethics be based upon the lower, negative
values of hate, anger, lust, greed, violence, among the many
possible negative values we can hold as the human value that
we might base our morality/ethics upon?

how do we collectively decide upon the values that we will base
our human morality/ethics upon?

and that is your question…

upon what value would you base all human morality/ethics upon?

one of the higher values or upon one of the lower values?

what value would you use to base all of human morality upon?

Kropotkin

is the goal of human beings to become “Autonomous?”

yes… and no…

we should aim for being autonomous beings based on
our reevaluation of values where we find “our values”
not the values indoctrinated into us, but values we find
as being genuine values that we become

and then as with everything, being autonomous is just
another step along the way…the process of becoming human
lies, in part, with becoming autonomous and then overcoming
that…

there is no final step in becoming… it is a process and by definition,
processes never ends…

we are simply a step to something else…

animal to animal/human to human and then… perhaps
superhuman?

and then?

the road is wide open ….

Kropotkin

I am pretty much average height, 5 foot 8…
about 205, a little overweight there…not much though…

However I cannot wear clothes for someone who is taller then 6 feet,
or someone who is 300 pounds… those clothes won’t fit…
I cannot wear shoes from someone is a size 13… those shoes are far
too large…

human beings come in all shapes, forms, sizes
and we cannot dress them with the same size clothing…
one size does not fit all……

and yet in our laws/morality/ethics, we do hold that one
size fits all…

we say, for example, stealing is illegal and immoral and unethical…
we make a class of actions illegal……

or we say, everyone must stop at red lights… no exceptions…

I have been to Costa Rica… and they go through red lights if no one is
going the other way… yellow lights meant go faster… the laws, at least
the driving laws really mean if you feel like stopping at a red light,
go for it, otherwise don’t worry about it…

so why do laws that are obey in one country disobeyed in another country…

why are laws so different in different countries?

because people are different… we cannot have laws that are
one size fits all… uniform laws that ignore the reality that people
are different and operate differently…

so given this reality, what should our laws be?

what should our morality be?

ethics should take into account the difference in people…….

so, let us be theoretical, what should, or what ought the laws be?

not reality based, but in theory…

not is, but ought to…

what should/ought to be our morality/ethics?

Kropotkin

ok, we have had laws/rules for as long as their has been a human
civilization… I’m sure that the hunter-gather of a million years ago,
had rules of some sort…we have had laws/ rules as long as there
have been human beings and yet, think about it…

in those million years, has laws/rules prevented laws from
being broken… in other words, we have a million years of
evidence that laws/rules don’t work… we still have crime
and violence and people going through red lights…

laws haven’t changed a thing…

so, what is the problem?

why can’t we obey the laws/rules?

now at this point, a whole myriad of answers can appear…

people are stupid, people are lazy, people are fundamentally
evil, people are always searching for an easy fix, people are always
seeking some sort of advantage, people are selfish, people are greedy,

and yet earlier we decided that a one size fits all answers aren’t valid,
so we cannot answer that question of why we can’t obey laws with
a one size fits all answer……

so why do people break the laws/rules?

the problem is with the word people, because it is some people
that break the laws, not all people, but some people…

and why is that? why do some people feel themselves above/outside
the laws/rules?

they can feel superior perhaps, or perhaps they are disconnected/alienated
from the society/state/culture…

if we don’t feel like we are a part of a system or society, we might feel
more like we can break its rules/laws because hay, we aren’t part of
that system/society anyway…

how do we get people to invest in their state/society/ culture enough to
get them to obey, follow the laws or rules?

I would submit that people break the laws/rules because they aren’t
invested into society/state enough to care about what happens to
that society/state……

if the society deems it that every person for themselves, as the
capitalistic society deems it, then what is the value for a person
to obey or follow the laws/rules?

every person for themselves… following the rules/laws isn’t
acceptable because by following the laws/rules, you might, might
fall behind others… the competition is to put yourself on top or
above others… then why follow the rules if there is nothing to gain
in the rules of capitalism, which is about every person for themselves…

if the game is to enrich yourself at the expense of others, then
there is nothing to be gained by following/obeying the laws/rules…

but what if, what if the game is something else… not personal advantage
but collective advantage…it is not whither the individual succeeds but
if the society/collective succeeds that matters…

if we make the game to be, if the society/state succeeds, then
we all succeed… then obeying the laws/rules makes much more
sense…

it is the individual pursuit of our goals that allows
one to decide to not obey the laws/rules, to help one
gain an advantage…

in other words, it is the rules that determine how we play the game…

if the rules/laws are different, then we play the game differently…

for example, in baseball, we have very set, determined rules…

threes strikes and you are out…

if we changed the rules, then we change the nature of the game…

if we give batters a forth strike, then we fundamentally change
the game of baseball…….

so let think about how we if we change the laws/rules, we fundamentally
change the game…….

so for example, we no longer require people to stop at red lights…
we change the game and people will react differently…

but that fundamental change will also create chaos and disorder
in the streets… people will demand, demand that we put in laws that
force people to stop at red lights… but and this is important…
some people will resist that… some people will call it socialism
and communism to make people stop at red lights…
those people will declare it their “right” to drive their cars through
a red light…but these people only have their rights in mind…
they don’t get the fact that they exists within the collective…
we cannot exists outside of a system… we are social creatures
that must have a social structure about us for us to survive…

there is in fact something wrong with people who don’t get that
they can only survive within a social system, a state, a society,
a culture…

they don’t get the collective nature of human existence…
we cannot survive alone and thus we must have
a collective existence… it isn’t about you or me, but about us…

and the rules/laws must reflect the collective nature of human
existence…

the game of life/existence depends, demands that that we
have rules/laws that put the collective first…not the individual…

however, does that mean we trample upon the rights of the minority?

no, and that is the beauty of the American system, where we have
institutionalize the idea of individual protest and disagreement with
the system/state……. we guarantee minorities the right to disagree with
the laws/rules of the state/government/society……

but that disagreement ends with the engagement of violence
and physical actions of any disagreement…you can protest all
you want until, until your actions violate my rights… you can act until
your actions hurt or damage my right to peacefully exist…

so given this, does current actions of pulling down right wing
or confederate statues “violate” my right to peacefully exist?

you haven’t enter my personal space, you haven’t violated my
personal possessions or harmed my person… so, no,
the current action of pulling down statues should be allowed…

does it disrupt the current system? yes, but that is the point of
these demonstrations… to bring about change in systemic racism
in the U.S…

it is the collective actions of a collective people to bring about
collective changes in the laws/rules……

if we make racism illegal, then we must change our actions to
accommodate the new rules/laws…

changes in the rules/laws changes the way we play the game…

those protesting are protesting as a collective hoping for a collective
change in the rules/laws……

it doesn’t benefit any single one person to create changes in the laws/rules…

it benefits everyone to have a change in the rules/laws that prevent
systemic racism in America…

for injustice that impacts one group exclusively, is impacting all groups
collectively… for the very point of justice is to treat everyone equally…
regardless of race, creed, sex or sexual orientation, color of one’s skin,
wealth, title, or amount of power one might have…

and once again, we see the collative nature of existence…

in other words, the laws/rules must impact everyone equally or if it impacts
one group with greater impact then other groups, then it is unjust…
unequal… and not in the best interest of the collective…

so we engage in laws/rules that impact everyone equally
and we understand human existence as being a collective
engagement…this means the rules/laws must
engage collectively……

we must play the game with equal rights and equal opportunities…

the rules/laws must be equal and fair to everyone…

do we have this in America today?

Kropotkin

many people including the Buddha and Nietzsche have felt
that the key to life, understanding and the point of life is
suffering…for Nietzsche, he felt that the “great soul” man
was “great” because of the lesson of suffering…it is by
suffering that we learn of our great lessons of life…

and I agree that suffering is “ONE” possibility to discover
the lessons of life… and a possibility it is, but we have
a vast number of ways we can discover/ learn
what is the point of, the meaning of life…….

once again, one size does not fit all…

and which example, like suffering teaches us the “most”?

actually it is the experiences of life that teach us, not
necessarily one specific experience, but all experiences are
teachable examples…

last night for example, I was checking and a couple of guys came into
my line… one was not wearing a mask… mask are mandatory if you
are outdoors and especially if you are indoors, in a place like a grocery store…
I told the man, young 20’s, that he must wear a mask to be in the store and
he replied, “that wearing a mask wasn’t a law”… which isn’t true, and I said it
was, he said, no… now clearly at this point he is wrong…
so I said, either he put on a mask or he must leave the store,
there was no third choice… he disagreed and started to yell at me,
well, when people yell at me, I yell back… at that point, the
supervisor, Sheri, stepped in… she had heard me say, no mask, no service,
and so she said, as a compromise, ok, you, the customer, can stay in the store
and that I can ring him up… that was the point I lost it…
NO, I will not ring up someone who is not wearing a mask… plain and simple…

but her statement said several things to me, one, that she didn’t back me up,
she tried to calm the situation down by simple accepting the customer version,
no, compromises can be made on a great many things, but not on this matter
of public health and safety… she didn’t have my back… and by accepting
the customer statement, she in fact gave him permission to continue his nonsense…
which he did… and he continue to espouse nonsense to her……
after a point, she told him to leave, but she had already lost the argument by
conceding his point of staying without a mask and having me ring him up……

he finally left… and she wanted me to “talk” about the situation…
which I refused to…I was mad as hell and talking about it wasn’t
going to make me less mad… I will probably face a long talking too
on Monday, but screw them…

by not wearing the mask, this clown put his rights ahead of my health and the
health of other customers…

does his right to choose override the law and my rights to protect my health?

Now, will Sheri learn from this experience, I seriously doubt it…

for her, the matter was what can I do to settle this down for the least
amount of issues for me…what was less work for me?
that was her resolution to the situation…

what did I learn? that Sheri didn’t have my back…
that she was more concerned with appearances then
with the facts of the situation…she didn’t want to seem
to be unreasonable to the customer for fear he might complain…

I learned that I cannot trust Sheri in any given situation…

she was too busy covering her ass…

every single experience we have can be a lesson to be learned…

so can suffering be a lesson? yes, as can be love and charity and
anger and lust and hate and peace and violence and any other
experience can become a lesson to be learned…

far too often people just accept experiences at face value
instead of treating them as possible lessons to be learned…

so, if every experience can be a lesson learned, what
lesson can we learn from, say death, for example?

and this is the point of existentialism… what lesson can be
learned from death?

and what can be learned from our understanding of leading
an “authentic” life? and what does the word, “Authentic” mean?

these are all lessons we can learn from existentialists……

what lessons can we learn from our day to day life?

that is the point of existence…

to learn its lessons…

what lesson did you learn today?

Kropotkin

I am deep into Zarathustra…….

how have you spent this day?

have you wasted it by seeking false idols?

were you seeking the idol of the tribe?

are you seeking the idol of the cave?

are you seeking the idol of the marketplace?

or will you be seeking the idol of the theater?

what narrative are you seduced by?

what have you overcome?

Kropotkin

do you have “paralipomeni”?

Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin:do you have “paralipomeni”?

Paralipomeni: Greek for something left undone or unsaid…

so have you?

Kropotkin

…always Peter… always.

it is my contention that the things we have left
undone or unsaid is just as important as the things
we have done or have said…

in fact, one might be able to make the argument that the
things we have left undone or unsaid is MORE important then
the things we have done or we have said…

Freud thought that because of the thing we have repressed,
left undone or unsaid… these unsaid or undone things
left in the subconscious create neuroses and emotional trauma…

people interviewed at the end of their lives, reported that
the things they regret the most were the things they left undone
or unsaid, rather then the things they said or did……

and what does this have to do with philosophy?

everything… for what is human is within the realm of philosophy
and psychology and history and economics and science and the humanities…
and ART and biology and…….

who are you? you are not only what you have said and done,
but you are what you haven’t said or done…….

Kropotkin