Keep channeling that muse, Caitlin! The more people learn to channel their muses, the more creative, free, and beautiful our species will become.
I always appreciate your hybrid form of journalism, and your constant attempt to create compelling ironies for people, such that you don’t have to tell them what to think, you just lay out the paradoxes and ironies saturating our world and discourse and let the mind see for itself.
This is the essential ingredient of the Socratic method, which remains the most powerful form of communication, in my opinion. Poets and prophets have always been about using paradox, parables, and irony to communicate their truth as well. That’s how they reached both the hearts and minds of so many. They were not lecturers or academics, or careerists.
Whether it’s a Socratic dialogue, a parable by Christ, or a speech by MLK, they were all very effective at compelling the mind using beautiful (even if sometimes intense) irony.
I think your journalism resounds because you see to do the same thing, and provoke a higher resonance of truth within your readers.
To quote St. Augustine, “The truth is like a lion, you don’t need to protect it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”
a beautiful quote by St. Augustine. unfortunately, that lion would be shot dead by assassins and devoured by hyenas, both on the global capitalist parasites' payrolls, in short order.
I’m sorry to say, but that sounds excessively “Boomerish.” Caitlin and a good bunch of others are doing a good job speaking the truth and developing their own independent platforms. More is being done everyday, and everyone needs to raise their game, intellectually, spiritually, and creatively.
I think the bigger problem is all the “black-pilled” folks and blind conspiracy theorists who just keep thinking everything is going perfectly according to plan, that nothing can be done, corruption etc…
Then they call themselves “realists.” The reality is things are not going just according to plan for the Borgs.
The “realists” need to put their thinking caps back on. In reality, the Olympians are very good at overestimating their intelligence and very good at underestimating the creativity of individuals and humanity generally. They are misanthropes, they disdain everyday people, and that makes them blind to many things.
I recommend reading Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound.”
the "truth" has always been clear to everyone who cares. but the "reality" hasn't changed fundamentally. that's why Putin had to do what he did. not sure what your point is. trust me, i've done too much reading and thinking already.
You wrote: "the 'truth' has always been clear to everyone who cares."
I don't think that's true.
We're part of a much longer story, and the next chapters aren't yet written. There are boundary conditions, but how things are actually going to unfold is still undecided.
the "truth" is not something you discover by physically removing a cover every minute. social-historical "truth" doesn't change because time passes. we can only agree to disagree on what we mean by truth.
Keep channeling that muse, Caitlin! The more people learn to channel their muses, the more creative, free, and beautiful our species will become.
I always appreciate your hybrid form of journalism, and your constant attempt to create compelling ironies for people, such that you don’t have to tell them what to think, you just lay out the paradoxes and ironies saturating our world and discourse and let the mind see for itself.
This is the essential ingredient of the Socratic method, which remains the most powerful form of communication, in my opinion. Poets and prophets have always been about using paradox, parables, and irony to communicate their truth as well. That’s how they reached both the hearts and minds of so many. They were not lecturers or academics, or careerists.
Whether it’s a Socratic dialogue, a parable by Christ, or a speech by MLK, they were all very effective at compelling the mind using beautiful (even if sometimes intense) irony.
I think your journalism resounds because you see to do the same thing, and provoke a higher resonance of truth within your readers.
To quote St. Augustine, “The truth is like a lion, you don’t need to protect it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”
a beautiful quote by St. Augustine. unfortunately, that lion would be shot dead by assassins and devoured by hyenas, both on the global capitalist parasites' payrolls, in short order.
I’m sorry to say, but that sounds excessively “Boomerish.” Caitlin and a good bunch of others are doing a good job speaking the truth and developing their own independent platforms. More is being done everyday, and everyone needs to raise their game, intellectually, spiritually, and creatively.
I think the bigger problem is all the “black-pilled” folks and blind conspiracy theorists who just keep thinking everything is going perfectly according to plan, that nothing can be done, corruption etc…
Then they call themselves “realists.” The reality is things are not going just according to plan for the Borgs.
The “realists” need to put their thinking caps back on. In reality, the Olympians are very good at overestimating their intelligence and very good at underestimating the creativity of individuals and humanity generally. They are misanthropes, they disdain everyday people, and that makes them blind to many things.
I recommend reading Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound.”
the "truth" has always been clear to everyone who cares. but the "reality" hasn't changed fundamentally. that's why Putin had to do what he did. not sure what your point is. trust me, i've done too much reading and thinking already.
You wrote: "the 'truth' has always been clear to everyone who cares."
I don't think that's true.
We're part of a much longer story, and the next chapters aren't yet written. There are boundary conditions, but how things are actually going to unfold is still undecided.
People have to make a decision.
the "truth" is not something you discover by physically removing a cover every minute. social-historical "truth" doesn't change because time passes. we can only agree to disagree on what we mean by truth.
Beautiful writing!