... and yet we constantly try to understand...is it necessary to reason about feelings?
why not let them be?
some things we can not explain, and maybe it's okay.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
"I Feel, But I Don't Understand" - Kant
... and yet we constantly try to understand...is it necessary to reason about feelings?
why not let them be?
some things we can not explain, and maybe it's okay.
A Strange Apparition
... on my way homeriding my bike
not so late at night
in the streets of Brooklyn,
from the corner of my eye something flee(t)ing...
a rat? too big for that
a cat? with a strange demeanour
perhaps an acrobat
or a racoon-like visitor
In Nature there's Culture...?
In Prospect Park: at the center of a circle of trees,a half naked man rests with his laptop on his knees...
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Schopenhauer's Porcupines
Human beings' constant struggle: because as social beings, we feel the need for interaction and human contact, yet it is necessary to keep at a reasonable distance from each other so as not to hurt one another..."A “company of porcupines” who “crowded themselves very close together one cold winter’s day so as to profit by one another’s warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death. But soon they felt one another’s quills, which induced them to separate again.” And so on. The porcupines were “driven backwards and forwards from one trouble to the other,” until they found “a mean distance at which they could most tolerably exist.”
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/prochnik.php
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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