Dear Chris,
I was trying to find a wider space in time to write you a better answer than
the one I actually can write.
I can try to understand your whimpering bourgeois when related to Nietzsche,
right in the context in which we will have to draw back all our culture to
whimpering bourgeois authors who even if they were not whimpering bourgeois
by birth became such later on. There was no way until the Second World War
you could spend a life on books without a fixed income. It is a society like
ours that has allowed to a greater mass of people to access culture, even if
the means offered are not the same for all. Many of us have conquered this
privilege by cutting down in sleeping hours, in essential needs that our
body requires. And in my case - have added the vice of smoking to keep up
with the many inevitable tensions, a contradiction in economic terms.
This said, we will have to deal with what our virtual bourgeois ancestors
have left us, since what you and me have developed is a speculative and/or
imaginative thought. I wouldn't for example be able to build a house, or
perform any blue collar activities, erroneously considered inferior to the
one that I carry out. So inferior that I would not even know where to
start...
I agree with your univocity of active forces, and cannot figure any return
be it eternal or not. St. Thomas is my favorite quotation in this context.
Russia's budget from a translation for a university I had to do recently,
founds over half its net income on the traffic of weapons and drugs, cannot
remember if we were close to 70%, should go back and check which would take
me some time.
This said, and in the chaos of our contemporary world and as I previously
said, I try to teach the best I can and to behave in the way I have come to
know as the most respectful in front of history and of humanity.
And with Douglas Barbour, your contribution is much more appreciated right
because of what you are going through at the moment.
I do wish you a twist, if possible, in your situation,
my best,
Anny
On 2/12/07, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Dear Anny,
>
> I cannot agree to a whimpering bourgeois Nietzsche that seeks to give a
> cut as if a limited and finite transcendental horizonal cut as that of
> the bearded Kantian critic which sees double when there is One too much
> like an Hegelian Romantic negation. The utopian man that seeks a future
> hope for cures in medical science is too timely and sickly. Far too much
> a finite limited bourgeois horizon, as if all that is sought is mere
> equality.
>
> For a multiple perspectivism, from the perspective of sickness a
> perspective on health and from health a perspective on sickness is to
> seek the Great Health of the Untimely. The last man and the man who
> wants to die in an alliance between reactive man and a dead god being a
> human replacement for god and better to die passively without any will
> as the last man following the higher men worshipping the ass which is
> themselves so burdened in the abjection of midnight. Pure abjection. And
> everything is ready. The transmutation of all values. The triumph of
> active forces and total critique that comes with creation! To think the
> One, the Same, to will the eternal return of the Same, this is a
> reversal of Platonism which renews Plato, simulacra without any need of
> a model or any need to be cut off from any model affirmed as Nietzsche's
> theory of fiction taken from Hume as self sustaining connections,
> relations with terms external to relations and far and beyond is the
> outside relations and external terms, the pure active force which is
> absolute deviation which must be and can only be univocal.
>
> I have been reading on narco-economies in which oppressed nations such
> as Columbia and Afghanistan are said to be entirely dependant on the
> trade in opium and heroin and the stocks of opium and heroin replace
> gold as the store of value allowing economic commodity exchange. If
> suddenly heroin were to be made legal as if overnight the price of
> heroin and opium would tumble as would the economy of these oppressed
> nations but along with this tumbling also would fall the strongest
> national economy in the world, the United States and with this the state
> of such a nation could no longer be said to be united, given the tower
> of Babel like vertical structure of the United States of America and
> along with this the entire world economy would collapse. (What would
> happen to Australia, to Continental Europe, the United Kingdom?) We are
> all today living as heroin addicts, junkies or the more polite term,
> injecting drug users. We are all living with abject sickness with
> utopian hopes of a timely cure. The midnight drama is in preparation. To
> think the Same which is not equality. That is the great challenge.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 11:59 +0100, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> > My compassion/pity can reach you at a subliminal emotional level while
> my
> > rationality would advise you to give a cut to this (doubly) vicious
> circle
> > that encloses and suffocates you. As a great adept of Nietzsche's work,
> I
> > believe in will and with Steiner in the complete change of our physical
> > cells every (3 _6 _9 ? cannot remember the number, probably nine since
> he
> > builds on it also the nine ethereal spheres). Chronic fatigue syndrome
> is a
> > disease by now recognized in the States and there should be proper
> treatment
> > for it. The same I think goes for coeliac disease of which I do not know
> > much.
> >
> > Re.: "Life. Of course, life is a process of breaking down". I am
> reminded of
> > Cesare Pavese's "Il duro mestiere di vivere" (don't know if the title is
> "Le
> > metier de vivre" or "Hard labor", literally : The hard labor of living).
> >
> > My best and sincere wishes, Anny
> >
>
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