What better time to touch-up on your TTOTT chops and follow the internetwork of principles, methods, ideas and artworks defined by Robert Anton Wilson as worthy study for surviving in the 21st century.
I wish you all a safe and productive hibernation. Love, Steve Fly.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7EA119478EE8715D
Pound & Joyce supplement each other
like Jefferson & Adams
each created a NEW non-aristotelian
language
for the tale of the tribe--Robert Anton Wilson,
tale of the tribe, 2005. (Maybe Logic Academy Class)
While modern theories of knowledge begin with something present to the mind - e.g., Descartes begins with self-evidently true, clear, and simple innate ideas - Vico, begins by asking how it is that the mind comes to have anything present to it at all (Verene, 1981).
And it is precisely to this question that Vico claims to have an answer, indeed, it is the master key of his science. "We find," he says,
"that the principle of these origins both of languages and of letters lies in the fact that the early gentile people, by a demonstrated necessity of nature, were poets who spoke in poetic characters. This discovery, which is the master key of this Science, has cost us the persistent research of almost all our literary life, because with our civilized natures we moderns cannot at all imagine and can understand only by great toil the poetic nature of these first men" (para.34, my emphasis).But to understand what he means here by saying that the early people were, by necessity, poets (where the word "poet" is from the Greek poitetes = one who makes, a maker, an artificer), we must divide the process of making involved into two parts: i) the first, to do with the forming of a sensory topic, and ii) the second, with the forming of an imaginary universal which, from a 'rooting' in it, 'lends' the topic a determinate form.--John Shotter, CMN/UNH, http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jds/VicoNotes.htm
" Since "individual freedom" and "individual greatness" mean nothing to you, while "national freedom" and "national greatness" stimulate your vocal cords in very much the same way as bones bring the water to a dog's mouth, the sound of these words makes you cheer. None of these little men pays the price that Giordano Bruno, Jesus, Karl Marx, or Lincoln had to pay for genuine freedom. They don't love you, little man, they despise you because you despise yourself. -- Wilhelm Reich, Listen Little Man. http://www.listenlittleman.com/
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