Culture means not so much a better world as a nobler one: a world to be brought about not through the overthrow of the material order of life but through events in the individual's soul. Humanity becomes an inner state. Freedom, goodness and beauty become spiritual qualities..The inner state is to be the source of action that does not come into conflict with the given order.
Culture should enoble the given by permeating it, rather than putting something new in its place.
---Marcuse.
There is a sense here that we are all captives, waiting for the inevitable. "We"? Now that the blasts are coming closer to you..now you say we! Ten dead, many more injured. Some still buried under the rubble. Little r cried for two hours steady because the school had a "lockdown". Everyone's on edge and the sense of fear is palpable.
What to do? Carry on with the ridiculous charade, the life of the mind and all that posturing, while everything around you falls to pieces? Take refuge in books, theory..anything whatsoever, in order to avoid looking at it in the face.
2 comments:
please, do keep safe, dear b.
Thank you, ffff...will do my best!
:-)
K.
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