Something Alan Watts touched back then. It's always the next thing, the future cake not this one. I notice also in most social situations I'm in, that people rarely are fully there in the sense of not having (at least for the time being) to go somewhere else. As if our society is that of a passerby, always on the go for THAT THING.
"My argument is that the North American intellectuals, typified by McLuhan, Fiedler and Brown, achieved a new fusion of ideas—a sensory pragmatism or engagement with concrete experience, rooted in the body , and at the same time a visionary celebration of artistic metaspace—that is, the fictive realm of art, fantasy and belief projected by great poetry and prefiguring OUR own cyberspace."
Great piece and great podcast. Though I always find it odd when people compare MPOF to modern day politics, like they've just read the title and are imagining what the case Reich presents is. Maybe it's a little applicable to Trump or populism but I think there are a lot of big distinctions too.
I like books that kick you in the guts. I will check out the original German text of "Listen, Little Man!".
Something Alan Watts touched back then. It's always the next thing, the future cake not this one. I notice also in most social situations I'm in, that people rarely are fully there in the sense of not having (at least for the time being) to go somewhere else. As if our society is that of a passerby, always on the go for THAT THING.
There's also a great one, Norman O. Brown, I consider being a disciple of him.
I even communed with him, his dead soul.
He died in the year I was born (like many of my other personal heroes, such coincidences!)
He also worked for O.S.S. during WW2.
A summary of his life and work, excellent:
http://www.rgpost.com/media/Brown.pdf
"My argument is that the North American intellectuals, typified by McLuhan, Fiedler and Brown, achieved a new fusion of ideas—a sensory pragmatism or engagement with concrete experience, rooted in the body , and at the same time a visionary celebration of artistic metaspace—that is, the fictive realm of art, fantasy and belief projected by great poetry and prefiguring OUR own cyberspace."
Blaise Metrevelli on shambles!....
Great piece and great podcast. Though I always find it odd when people compare MPOF to modern day politics, like they've just read the title and are imagining what the case Reich presents is. Maybe it's a little applicable to Trump or populism but I think there are a lot of big distinctions too.
Brilliant and in-line with The Last Psychiatrist's book - Sadly, Porn
this is so good. lots I will be sitting with.