oceans

Once you can feel the oceans inside yourself, there is no need for sorrow; no need for fear...

art?

Would it be by any chance possible that the western society treated art as a sphere diminished from their life and values, and put their abstract wealth in its restoration, turning it into a meta? While it has been an integral part of life in the Eastern, African, and Latin American cultures over centries? Wasn't it that the western art found its inspiration, following the industrial revolution, in what they labelled as the naive and the primitive?

Would it be that the western art seeks the escape from its own paradox?

modernism - postmodernism

Modernist will of production represents the will to make the world a better place on the surface; to fix it underneath; to modify something that you are uncomfortable with; that you can't let it go on like this; to hope that you would be able to work on reaching and ideal; to dream about it; to believe it.

Postmodernist will of production represents the will to confrom to actuality; preferring not to show any unnecessary effort to modify or fix it; not to waste your energy; not to struglle; rather focusing finding the way that's in the best interest of the production process; and ignoring responsibility in the actions taking place since any action would be taken following the mechanisms of actuality and noone cannot be held responsible for them.

meaning...

* What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world exists.
That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field.
That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning.
This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it.
That life is the world.
That my will penetrates the world.
That my will is good or evil.
Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.
The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.
And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.
To pray is to think about the meaning of life.
o Journal entry (11 June 1916), p. 72e and 73e

* To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
o Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e

* There are two godheads: the world and my independent I.
I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist.
A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
o Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e

* The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is psychological life. Life is the world.
Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic.
Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
o Journal entry (24 July 1916), p. 77e

* It is true: Man is the microcosm:
I am my world.
o Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e

* What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
o Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e

* It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
o Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e

WITTGENSTEIN

the (in)between - castelvecchio

the_city

it's the end of the world as i know it