'My lows are lower than you, but my highs are higher than your highs...whence comes your peculiar midwifery?'
'What? Are you implying I am not higher than myself?'
'Is that not clear?'
'So be it then.. I hold the right to speak as long as you are below me. For this is my secret desire: that you can bring me to silence!'
'You speak the truth... the contradictions of your being are but beyond you.'
28 May 2009
13 May 2009
Ode to solitude
How much adjustment and good will is required before one can see one's own reflection in the mirror! One must drop what one is doing, walk up to the mirror, open one's eyes and look at the mirror for the mirror to look back at one.
How one may choose not to do some or all of these things! How much the mirror is not helpful in this regard -- a testament to the profound solitude of one's individual existence! Moreover: how superficial is the image when the mirror does reflect;for one sees what one wants see, what one has given oneself to see. How much is left unsaid! Isn't all showing a deceiving?
But if the mirror is the best we can hope for, then who wants the mirror? Bury youself under the skin! For the treasures of your being lie there uninstantiated as the great germs of the your solitude!
How one may choose not to do some or all of these things! How much the mirror is not helpful in this regard -- a testament to the profound solitude of one's individual existence! Moreover: how superficial is the image when the mirror does reflect;for one sees what one wants see, what one has given oneself to see. How much is left unsaid! Isn't all showing a deceiving?
But if the mirror is the best we can hope for, then who wants the mirror? Bury youself under the skin! For the treasures of your being lie there uninstantiated as the great germs of the your solitude!
28 April 2009
Buzz word
'It ain't true until you do it; make it explicit!' This is how the fly reasons and continues to buzz around you, knowing perfectly well that it is not supposed to do so, and that it could get killed for its incredulity. But this is the covert, shameless hope of the annoying creature: that you may feel too lofty to be a swatter of flies, too pure to soil your hands, even if that means you suffer the vexing sting of the parasitic fly. And in this way it takes advantage of your magnanimity and lives on for another day!
25 April 2009
Life's plenum
The world is not my image of it, and yet the world is alive only through the images I create.
22 April 2009
3 levels of absurdities in Nietzsche
I.
1) The objectivity of truth or that of health is vehemently denied. The truths of each body - whether a culture, an individual or a genre - is localized and given a legitimate sphere, where the tyranny of their specific perspective has the sole right.
2) It is still maintained, in apparent contradiction to the above, that there some healthier, more truthful bodies in comparison to others. The passions, the sufferings, the desires, the needs, the joy and happiness of these nobler entities must be preferred - since they have a greater purpose to them - to that of the lower beings.
3) However, an unequivocal rule is denied, which gives one access to a method by which one can discern which body is healthier or stronger than some other bodies. The knowledge of the criterion of what counts as healthy is known only by those who possess this health! It is not accessible to everyone. This is the tragedy of the healthy ones!
II. This movement from 1) to 3) is that of the 'objectivity' to 'subjectivity'. But not in the Hegelian sense, where the movement gains momentum in this very movement. It is rather the movement from 'will to truth' to 'will to power.'
III. But at the same time, this movement is perhaps the closest one gets to having a genuine sense of objectivity. Or the closest approximation that the motion of becoming can have to that of being, as Nietzsche puts it somewhere. For, even the noblest one's claim to his health, in the end, might be another form of delusion and dogmatism. A cave which hides another cave within its abyss. The spectre of Hegel in Nietzsche.
1) The objectivity of truth or that of health is vehemently denied. The truths of each body - whether a culture, an individual or a genre - is localized and given a legitimate sphere, where the tyranny of their specific perspective has the sole right.
2) It is still maintained, in apparent contradiction to the above, that there some healthier, more truthful bodies in comparison to others. The passions, the sufferings, the desires, the needs, the joy and happiness of these nobler entities must be preferred - since they have a greater purpose to them - to that of the lower beings.
3) However, an unequivocal rule is denied, which gives one access to a method by which one can discern which body is healthier or stronger than some other bodies. The knowledge of the criterion of what counts as healthy is known only by those who possess this health! It is not accessible to everyone. This is the tragedy of the healthy ones!
II. This movement from 1) to 3) is that of the 'objectivity' to 'subjectivity'. But not in the Hegelian sense, where the movement gains momentum in this very movement. It is rather the movement from 'will to truth' to 'will to power.'
III. But at the same time, this movement is perhaps the closest one gets to having a genuine sense of objectivity. Or the closest approximation that the motion of becoming can have to that of being, as Nietzsche puts it somewhere. For, even the noblest one's claim to his health, in the end, might be another form of delusion and dogmatism. A cave which hides another cave within its abyss. The spectre of Hegel in Nietzsche.
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