Lila was an interesting but more difficult read than Zen. You might think from Zen that he will move in the direction of practice--I thought that--but he doesn't. Despite the narrative line which again is used to carry the mood, Lila is more wordy and abstract. It really is metaphysics. Sven, did you mention PNing yet? Much PN. Nonetheless--yes, I mean that--it is full of interesting stuff, including a good deal of backstory to the ideas in Zen. That alone is fascinating.
His lucid, depressing, and unflattering account of the Victorians is especially relevant for the US as we more or less return to that unhappy age.
He includes an account of his meeting with Redford that is a great and funny read, as well as being a meditation on the nature of movies, celebrity, and--though he shies from saying it outright--those deities that draw energy from--and interact most directly with--the human world (the wraith energies of human activity).
The dates mentioned in the article and his age amazed me: He was doing everything about a decade too soon ;D
Sadly, the entire current of his thought must now be counted as "underground." Underground, it continues, and perhaps there will again be springs . . . The Fates are kind.
Metaphysics is essentially PN proof. You can't be me, I'm taken
"Abandon hype, all ye who enter here" You can't be me, I'm taken
or 60% proof by volume
About right. The Fates are kind.
Sadly, the entire current of his thought must now be counted as "underground." Underground, it continues, and perhaps there will again be springs . . .
When you are going against the grain of accepted philosophical thinking for the last 2000 years you can expect to be "buried", academically at least.
The reason I went right back to metaphysics, and stumbled across Pirsig, was that conventional thinking simply will not account for the phenomenon of the "Open" Corporate and the "Open" Capital which it enables.
Moreover, and this is certainly fighting talk, I think that these new policy tools not only enable the necessary alternative to our existing toxic financial system, but are actually doing so as we speak.
ie I am observing and documenting an "emergent" phenomenon, but do not have the intellectual tools to describe it adequately.
I think that this potentially opens up entire new fields - sorry, "springs" (much more poetic) to academic research. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
i think a couple of months in the tink-tonk will polish up yer powerpoint jes' fine...
besides all you have to do, if it pans out like you infer, will be to lay back and watch it work, hipping us to wherever it emerges,,,
now what about my cottage?
seriously, i'm willing to try this out in da reel world.
it smells so good!
anyone can email me at cosivia (at)libero.it and put cottage in the title if you want to natter offline, though i think it would be funner to do it right here!
chris gots some 'splaining to do, and we'se listenin' up good... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
