Musings on reading a quote by Jean Paul Sartre (for my grandson Christian) The quote: The serious error is to think that the word is a gentle breeze which plays lightly over the surface of things, which grazes them without altering them; and that the speaker is a pure witness who sums up with a word his harmless contemplation. To speak is to act; anything which one names is already no longer the same, it has lost its innocence. ~ Jean Paul Sartre Musings: The translation of raw reality into words, labels, symbols, categories, structures, processes and stories is the process by which The Matrix (the speakers personal version), like the Borg in Star Trek, assimilates raw reality and spits out a sanitized, processed, artificially organized structure/story which often reflects more about The Matrix itself than the reality that is supposedly being presented (or, rather, re-presented). You know, Its the hand of God vs. Its science at work vs. Its an individual minds striving to impose order and predictability on the mysterious turbulent flow of what is. Were over seven billion people, with almost every one of us likely believing some version of Reality is what I think/feel/believe it is, and anyone who sees it differently is just wrong. Do you really think reality cares what you/we think or believe? The Mystery flows, carrying us as we spin out our yarns, our storied tapestries, while our lives flicker like fireflies on a warm summer evening. ♥
Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 02:06:46 +0000
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