Ours is not the world to save... but the healer in a hurry before his Gethsemane commended the ways to confront the suffering of others and to share our comfort. Whatever the necessary exegesis, that way seems clear enough.
I am soon to enter what somewhat bureaucratically is termed 'old old age'. I carry what seems like knowledge of the world that is so steeped in apprehension that it can feel like second-sight. Auden of course was right, that dive, that insight, and you for recognising recurrent time.
I started a substack 3 years back because of a book and Naydler the author of 'The Struggle for a Human Future'. Intellect though can run out of road. I have realised poetry might be a strategy - 'The indirect approach'. FWIW I contribute and try to connect. One of the poets who responded to my recent obsession wrote that a poem has brought him calm... 'there will be olives'. So as the poet Yahia Lababidi has written: "Hope's not quite as it seems, it's slimmer than you'd think"
May your commentary spread, lighthouse to lighthouse along the coast for those sailing for humanity.
The expression ‘existential vertigo’ is brilliant, love it, encapsulates the place we find ourselves as the old world dies and a new one begins or as Zak Stein called it ‘a time between worlds’
Tips on how to join unlinked but should be conjugated entities together for shared strength/unity instead of being divided and at the behest of the Deep State / the embedded system of Hyper-Capitalism, Inequality and Colonial abstraction.
How parts of UK Agriculture could be fitted within a new and broader Green Party perhaps would be a good start...
Ours is not the world to save... but the healer in a hurry before his Gethsemane commended the ways to confront the suffering of others and to share our comfort. Whatever the necessary exegesis, that way seems clear enough.
I am soon to enter what somewhat bureaucratically is termed 'old old age'. I carry what seems like knowledge of the world that is so steeped in apprehension that it can feel like second-sight. Auden of course was right, that dive, that insight, and you for recognising recurrent time.
I started a substack 3 years back because of a book and Naydler the author of 'The Struggle for a Human Future'. Intellect though can run out of road. I have realised poetry might be a strategy - 'The indirect approach'. FWIW I contribute and try to connect. One of the poets who responded to my recent obsession wrote that a poem has brought him calm... 'there will be olives'. So as the poet Yahia Lababidi has written: "Hope's not quite as it seems, it's slimmer than you'd think"
May your commentary spread, lighthouse to lighthouse along the coast for those sailing for humanity.
Best wishes for your sharing to come!
The expression ‘existential vertigo’ is brilliant, love it, encapsulates the place we find ourselves as the old world dies and a new one begins or as Zak Stein called it ‘a time between worlds’
I wish you all the best! Being a private person, would not write in, right off the bat but you are a good fit for Agony Aunt ❤️❤️
And thank you for the reflection on the Auden poem. I’ve always admired his work, and this poem continues to resonate.
Tips on how to join unlinked but should be conjugated entities together for shared strength/unity instead of being divided and at the behest of the Deep State / the embedded system of Hyper-Capitalism, Inequality and Colonial abstraction.
How parts of UK Agriculture could be fitted within a new and broader Green Party perhaps would be a good start...
Just wonderful…
Speaking of the odour of death and fear too please check out these references:
http://www.easydeathbook.com/purpose.asp beautiful prose
http://beezone.com/latest/death_message.html Death as the Constant Message of Life
http://beezone.com/whats-new
http://www.adidaupclose.org/death_and_dying/index.html
http://beezone.com/adida
A more humorous Understanding of such http://beezone.current/welcomesisterdeath-2.html
http://beezone.com/adida/ego-fear/index-47.html