This was locker-room banter, a private conversation..
Notes and quotes from Kierkegaard.
"Everything is made into a joke."
"The individual ceases to be singled out by religion."
The desire to buy something second-hand, on the cheap, rather than first-hand, the real deal.
Modern techniques of control: the Press and the media: looking for laughter [thrills, shocks, the breaking of taboos.."nothing is sacred," said Rushdie]. The need for pranks, distraction, superficiality, gossip, to kill time. Laziness, indifference, ..this "meaningless grin".
"Silence is the essence of inwardness, of the inner life."
"When people's attention is no longer turned inwards, when they are no longer satisfied with their own inner religious lives, but turn to others and things outside themselves, where the relation is intellectual, in search of that satisfaction..When nothing important ever happens to gather the threads of life together..that is the time for talkativeness."
Modern conversation: what one is going to do, what we would have said on a certain occasion, which particular girl one is going to make love to..."
Gossip, trivialities, spice, meaningless banter, idle talk.."a manifestation of emptiness."
Brilliant shams. Deception. Dodgy dossiers. "Up" is "down" -and we're all free.
Flirtation: the lack of courage to follow through. To stay in the middle and never venture anything. Both evil and the good are avoided. since you know it will never amount to much you can flirt with anything or anyone.
[You can do anything]
[Is that what most men really think?]
"In Germany they even have phrasebooks for the use of lovers..in fact, there are handbooks for everything."
[' __ for Dummies,' where '__' stands for anything: Islam, The Theory of Relativity, Hobbes...another version of '60 second news'..or,a s the Yanks would say: get to the bottom dollar]
"One man is curious about another. Everyone is undecided."
But if truth be told no-one is really curious about another person. We are curious about all the accidental features, never the essence, because that would lead us to reflect upon the question: what is our own individual essence?
Notes and quotes from Kierkegaard.
"Everything is made into a joke."
"The individual ceases to be singled out by religion."
The desire to buy something second-hand, on the cheap, rather than first-hand, the real deal.
Modern techniques of control: the Press and the media: looking for laughter [thrills, shocks, the breaking of taboos.."nothing is sacred," said Rushdie]. The need for pranks, distraction, superficiality, gossip, to kill time. Laziness, indifference, ..this "meaningless grin".
"Silence is the essence of inwardness, of the inner life."
"When people's attention is no longer turned inwards, when they are no longer satisfied with their own inner religious lives, but turn to others and things outside themselves, where the relation is intellectual, in search of that satisfaction..When nothing important ever happens to gather the threads of life together..that is the time for talkativeness."
Modern conversation: what one is going to do, what we would have said on a certain occasion, which particular girl one is going to make love to..."
Gossip, trivialities, spice, meaningless banter, idle talk.."a manifestation of emptiness."
Brilliant shams. Deception. Dodgy dossiers. "Up" is "down" -and we're all free.
Flirtation: the lack of courage to follow through. To stay in the middle and never venture anything. Both evil and the good are avoided. since you know it will never amount to much you can flirt with anything or anyone.
[You can do anything]
[Is that what most men really think?]
"In Germany they even have phrasebooks for the use of lovers..in fact, there are handbooks for everything."
[' __ for Dummies,' where '__' stands for anything: Islam, The Theory of Relativity, Hobbes...another version of '60 second news'..or,a s the Yanks would say: get to the bottom dollar]
"One man is curious about another. Everyone is undecided."
But if truth be told no-one is really curious about another person. We are curious about all the accidental features, never the essence, because that would lead us to reflect upon the question: what is our own individual essence?
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