Inaction & Power
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- "Work is the negation of eternity. The more goods we acquire in the temporal realm, the more intense our external work, the less accessible and farther removed is eternity. Hence the limited perspective of active and energetic people, the banality of their thought and actions. I am not contrasting work to either passive contemplation or vague dreaminess, but to an unrealizable transfiguration; nevertheless, I prefer an intelligent and observant laziness to intolerable, terrorizing activity. To awaken the modern world, one must praise laziness. The lazy man has an infinitely keener perception of metaphysical reality than the active one." - Cioran, On the Heights of Despair
This video was instigated by this video: • The Noble Spirit
I used various texts from E. M. Cioran and some things by A.O. Spare as well as my own writing for this video. Music by Arktau Eos.
I like Oswald Spengler (both the UA-camr and the writer). But I felt like showing the contrast between Cioranian thought (which I feel closest to) and Nietzschean thought. I believe nobility is found in refusing to take part in the delirium.
I feel this terrible pressure from society of doing something. If you say "no, I just want to be relax", as I have done many times, they look at you with strange face, like "something is wrong with that guy". We have, among others, this commandment of enjoy, this "have fun!", "enjoy!" and also the commandment of work, "you have to do something with your life", "be someone". These two things are killing me.
I haven't read Krishnamurti much myself. Nor Alan Watts. It's true that they tend to be quite popular when you get near a New Age crowd.
Huxley said: “The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." (cont)
Wow ! This the first vid of yours I picked out and I really love it ! All power and agency are indeed a delusion on the immutable backgound of being (or not-being) resting in itself. But this is also to say too much. Absolute rest is nameless. Personally I could endure eternity like a cat half closing her eyes on a sofa. “Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.” (Meister Eckhart)
(cont.) "They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.”
Absolutely brilliant.
Oh, it's based on a Wells novel. It reminds me a bit of this by Wells:
"We are like early amphibians, so to speak, struggling out of the waters that have hitherto covered our kind, into the air, seeking to breathe in a new fashion and emancipate ourselves from long accepted and long unquestioned necessities. At last it becomes for us a case of air or nothing. But the new land has not yet definitively emerged from the waters and we swim distressfully in an element we wish to abandon."
There's one thing Krishnamurti said that has stuck with me since I first heard it many years ago: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Great post, and thanks.
I have avoided this for all my adult life... I've been completely isolated from society. My relatives still cannot understand how I manage to live the way I do.
Huxley and Krishnamurti said some profound things about those who adapt to society successfully.
1:55 We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
This video is divine.
And yet there is.
Krishnamurti, oh my God, I was fucking obsessed with that guy, not only reading him but studding it. He really impressed me but later, even he has good points, I found him quite vague,not precise, and kind of hypnotic (even if he says "think for your self"). And I notice many of the people interested in him were kind of new age people who idealize him (as I used to do) Anyway...I had my difficult time with the new age and the fast-food spirituality
What does Huxley say?
''Huxley and Krishnamurti said some profound things about those who adapt to society successfully.''
I'm aware of what the former said about that but the latter?
Not really. I guess it just reminded me of a quotation from Lincoln about humans being somewhere between angels and beasts (not quite right but that's the gist of it), also the closing scene of the film 'Things to Come' in which Raymond Massey says that humanity's fate is to be all-conquering heroes or 'little animals'. This setting up of human life as caught in the binary clutches of good and evil, progress and regress, is a bit of trope which I think it might be good to deconstruct.
Thanks. These words remain me to Alice Miller and Daniel Mackler. May be you find it interesting; watch?v=xb-pke3ud0E&feature=related
Do you have something in mind?
Superman or animal. Are those really the only choices?