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"If we survey the field of history and ask what features all great periods of revival, of expansion of the human mind, display in common, we shall find, I think, simply this; that each and all of them said to the human being, 'the inmost nature of the reality is congenial to powers which you possess.'"
- William James, "Rationality, Activity, and Faith" (1879)
Apocalypse
My goodness, I believe I see blue skies outside.
Possibilities
I dream of space travel,
a city of tree-houses,
with rope-bridge thruways,
drinking fountains that dispense
chocolate milkshake,
light sabers and hoverboards for all,
and a Fermina Daza for every
Florentino Ariza.
Apollo (Dionysus)
There's some saying that approximates:
"Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
This seems like hubris to me.
I like:
"A clean environment yields a clean mind."
A bit longer, but brevity isn't everything.
Entropy
I'm dealing with the enclosure of night here, residing in a cramped system of energy and wondering exactly where the batteries are located. My arms are slowing down. Not sure about my voice; when I talk to myself, it's not audible, in the ordinary sense. There's a certain hum to it, to the city night I mean, with a rhythm that is just this side of rhythmic.
I wonder, if I discount the existence (or being) of that unmoved mover that Aristotle talks about, where does that leave imagination? From what I can tell, the imagination is not contingent (it's causa sui) on billiard-ball physics. It has no vectors of movement. It can dream of cry
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