The most difficult word to say today: &
Someone, a long time ago, sent me this:
'The letter "Waw", which in Arabic means "and". The Sufis call it the letter of Love because without it, nothing can come together. We say "the sea and the sky," Man and Woman." The "waw" is the meeting place of love. It is also the letter of the traveler, because it gathers together things and beings.'
and,
'There are as many ways to God as the number of human beings on earth." This quote alone is a representation of the vision of Sufism.'
That reminded you of Levinas and his wonderful meditations in Jewish Revelation.
The world's shortest poem: Me. You.
One of the best, though, is: Me & You.
Socialism at its best is a political philosophy of '&'. It is shocking to see how the working class has swung over to the fanaticism of the right (fixated on migrants, Muslims, refugees), a politics of hate, which is to say: distinctions.
All that you have come to love about London was ultimately a reflection of that attitude at the institutional and cultural level (the public parks, the public libraries, the charity shops, the NHS, the National-as well as the other galleries and museums).
There are some lovely lines by Badiou on ' togetherness..a ' we' that doesn't subsume the individual. Exupery says it well: looking out in the same direction. ' Fellowship'. Arendt' s image comes to mind: the table around which everyone sits ( it is worth emphasizing the ' everyone' bit), equal & distinct.
There's a lovely scene in the original Far from the Madding Crowd where they all sit at a table in the twighlight. Everything is suggestive of change, shifting places ( the beginning of spring?). Everyone is distinct, but not equal!
Hirschman on the ancient feast. Gopnik, too. An old form of sociability. Communion?
A life in common. Dewey' s common faith.
You wonder to yourself just how much the quality of conversation has deteriorated after Thatcher and Reagan and the lurch to the right. Society is just a fiction ( Bentham). "Any old pig will do" you imagine Cameron saying.
In stark contrast to the ideology that maintains we are atomized individuals, and that supports a rather shallow understanding of autonomy there's Iris M's: The quality of our attachments is the quality of our understanding.
' Bound and free' was the Beguine's view, I remember the dougal saying.
The plebs have been duped into believing that their " values" are under threat by all these muzzies and fuzzy wuzzies. And as long ad they don't question the power structures, the structure of dominance, the elites are happy. Bread and circuses. Really is old hat.
A line from P. Fitzgerald:
'Not an unbeliever, sir, a free thinker..As a free thinker I can believe what I like, when I like'.
A sentiment that would be utterly lost on the fundos and people like the Aussie woman alike. & sometimes makes for very strange bedfellows!
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Someone, a long time ago, sent me this:
'The letter "Waw", which in Arabic means "and". The Sufis call it the letter of Love because without it, nothing can come together. We say "the sea and the sky," Man and Woman." The "waw" is the meeting place of love. It is also the letter of the traveler, because it gathers together things and beings.'
and,
'There are as many ways to God as the number of human beings on earth." This quote alone is a representation of the vision of Sufism.'
That reminded you of Levinas and his wonderful meditations in Jewish Revelation.
The world's shortest poem: Me. You.
One of the best, though, is: Me & You.
Socialism at its best is a political philosophy of '&'. It is shocking to see how the working class has swung over to the fanaticism of the right (fixated on migrants, Muslims, refugees), a politics of hate, which is to say: distinctions.
All that you have come to love about London was ultimately a reflection of that attitude at the institutional and cultural level (the public parks, the public libraries, the charity shops, the NHS, the National-as well as the other galleries and museums).
There are some lovely lines by Badiou on ' togetherness..a ' we' that doesn't subsume the individual. Exupery says it well: looking out in the same direction. ' Fellowship'. Arendt' s image comes to mind: the table around which everyone sits ( it is worth emphasizing the ' everyone' bit), equal & distinct.
There's a lovely scene in the original Far from the Madding Crowd where they all sit at a table in the twighlight. Everything is suggestive of change, shifting places ( the beginning of spring?). Everyone is distinct, but not equal!
Hirschman on the ancient feast. Gopnik, too. An old form of sociability. Communion?
A life in common. Dewey' s common faith.
You wonder to yourself just how much the quality of conversation has deteriorated after Thatcher and Reagan and the lurch to the right. Society is just a fiction ( Bentham). "Any old pig will do" you imagine Cameron saying.
In stark contrast to the ideology that maintains we are atomized individuals, and that supports a rather shallow understanding of autonomy there's Iris M's: The quality of our attachments is the quality of our understanding.
' Bound and free' was the Beguine's view, I remember the dougal saying.
The plebs have been duped into believing that their " values" are under threat by all these muzzies and fuzzy wuzzies. And as long ad they don't question the power structures, the structure of dominance, the elites are happy. Bread and circuses. Really is old hat.
A line from P. Fitzgerald:
'Not an unbeliever, sir, a free thinker..As a free thinker I can believe what I like, when I like'.
A sentiment that would be utterly lost on the fundos and people like the Aussie woman alike. & sometimes makes for very strange bedfellows!
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