tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post8318475382629244691..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: seems like total destruction the only solutionRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-91666676811989836902020-11-04T18:00:06.450+01:002020-11-04T18:00:06.450+01:00I had, for a number of years, fallen prey to a sev...I had, for a number of years, fallen prey to a severe fatalism about life, but I was recently reminded (or my mind was reconfigured) by Rilke, Valery and Gass that consciousness is not only a processing machine, it is our awareness and perception and imagination. And that it is in our imaginations that we can love and desire, feel and savor and share. Our imaginations are who we really are. But imagination has been so abused and subverted by utilitarian (commercial, political and ideological) interests that, I think, most people are hardly aware they have one and life becomes an endless rotation of work, worry and diversion with occasional outbursts of frustration. Empathy is not even a consideration in such lives. People are so terrified (and encouraged to be terrified) of boredom (the birthplace of consciousness) that death becomes preferable, for themselves or others or both. But to convey this at large . . . .Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593856494794212834noreply@blogger.com