2020-05-08
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Comment on "Poisoned Depths"
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I keep coming back to a theme that is sort of hard to pin down.
It's a feeling of things being broken on a narrative level. Like
nothing can be adequately captured by our explanations. And it
isn't only that you need some sort of poetry to be able to get
to some meanings, but also that something about the atomistic
deconstructed piecemeal worldview we have is actively dangerous
and sick in some extraordinarily fundamental level.
It must have been going on since the enlightenment. Basically it's
science's long shadow. The more scientific we become the more
everything is cut to pieces and emptied of any intrinsic value.
At the same time, it's not like we can just dump science or the
philosophies underlying it. Actually, I see science a rather
important tool keeping at least some shared reality intact.
Sort of.
It's very confusing, though. How to find the right limits to the
different impulses? When is description a sort of denigration?
Whenever something is taken apart, there is an implicit
perspective that decides the division, since the world isn't built
up but grown.
Hillman is quite an interesting find for me. I just started
reading him. The first person I've come across since Jung who
sounds like Jung but with more modern problems.
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