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In many ways, modern media is exactly this phenomenon of illusory progress. I am thinking especially the dialectic between television and RU-vid. In many ways, RU-vid - the internet - seems just another form of television, but when you think about it, it is perhaps the apotheosis of media. What ought one to do? We really are confronted with our own fecklessness as we surf the web; there isn’t any reason to choose one video over another: the “dangling conversation” isn’t going on in an AI generated singularity, but rather in the living room, just like people used to be totally controlled by the church. Even the most stoic sentinel needs religion to return to the source, or achieve ecstasy, but the end of history is already here and indeed, philosophy is an activity, but also a facticity. We want there to be imaginary truths that can pacify our meticulous - unready - souls, but in the end all we can do be thankful and keep striving, and maybe work out to find out where it all went wrong. But maybe there are no mistakes in life, since you live so you learn. Freedom is the highest of all things to be gained. What we want to do, is within our reach. Knowing that, RU-vid is already quite the miracle of human handiwork.
Insightful lectures. Please who’s that person clearing their throat?? They could have gone to sort themselves out in the bathroom. That noise was ingratiating 😢
Awesome lectures. I would say there are other passages in Whitman regarding death that suggest he really does believe in an afterlife, perhaps through reincarnation into the invisible and impalpable realms he sometimes speaks of. E.g. when he says that he has already died a thousand deaths. Maybe I'm wrong and Whitman was just a materialist and it's only a metaphorical sort of immortality. But I'm not sure, he's a very tricky author.
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"It is actually said by everyone that the symmetry of parts in relation to each other and to the whole added to fine coloration makes something beautiful to see." Enneads 1.6.1. Dillon, King, Wilberding, note, "This is in particular the Stoic view, although it was widely held by others as well."
