FB feed hitting me with too realness . politics by aristotle, of friendship by francis bacon
web search hitting me with perspectives https://aphelis.net/whosoever-delighted-solitude-bacon/
“A final remark about the following sentence, also from the excerpt of Francis Bacon’s essay quoted above:
/For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”/
The last part is a clear reference to Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians:
/If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. (1 Corinthians 13:1, NIV)./“
DDR guy coweye playing ariana grande’s rain on me. yeah pop music can have heart. yeah i wish i grew up not depressed and part of the girlhood youth i wasnt. yeah in many respects its too late for that because i dont want to try and because the physical realities that reflect dysphoria back constantly are overwhelming and i succumb to depression instead of blissful neglectful happiness. rant rant capitalist system still corrupt take it out on the rest of the world while i continue to participate in it. but because i do so begrudgingly, im better than you /sarcast ick
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aristotle
“Thus also the city-state is prior in nature to the household and to each of us individually. For the whole must necessarily be prior to the part; since when the whole body is destroyed, foot or hand will not exist except in an equivocal sense, like the sense in which one speaks of a hand sculptured in stone as a hand; because a hand in those circumstances will be a hand spoiled, and all things are defined by their function and capacity, so that when they are no longer such as to perform their function they must not be said to be the same things, but to bear their names in an equivocal sense. It is clear therefore that the state is also prior by nature to the individual; for if each individual when separate is not self-sufficient, he must be related to the whole state as other parts are to their whole, while a man who is incapable of entering into partnership, or who is so self-sufficing that he has no need to do so, is no part of a state, so that he must be either a lower animal or a god.”
bacon
XXVII–Of Friendship. “It has been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech, “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god:” for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society in any man hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature, except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of love and desire to sequester a man’s self for higher conversation: such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really, in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. (The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, pp. 73-74)”
XXVII eh, well that’s fitting, im going to be 27 soon, fear and dread ensues
