Archives for January 2024

“Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.” Miles Davis “Throughout the animal kingdom we find the welfare of the individual subordinated to that of the species.” Ernest Starling (Elements of Human Physiology) "In the affluent society, the authorities are hardly forced to justify their domination. They deliver the goods; they satisfy the sexual and the aggressive energy of their subjects. Like the unconscious, the destructive power of which they so successfully represent, they are this side of good and evil, and the principle of contradiction has no place in their logic. " Herbert Marcuse (Eros and Civilization) "I'm mad on technology." Adolf Hitler (Table … [Read more...]

"The more we understand about primitive mentality, which constitutes a deep layer of advanced mentality, the harder it becomes to escape the idea that its implicit sense of and quest for irrational nondifferentiation of subject and object contains a truth of its own, granted that this other truth fits badly with our rational world view and quest for objectivity." Hans Loewald (The Waning of the Oedipus Complex) "All that culture from a thousand years ago, that philosophy, that wisdom – Plato, Aristotle, Socrates – what happened to it? It should have prevented this." Bob Dylan (Nobel Prize speech) "The aesthetic force of production is the same as that of productive labor and has … [Read more...]