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The Melancholy of Anatomy
By Wendell Berry
The poet William Butler Yeats prayed: “God guard me from the thoughts men think / In the mind alone” (“A Prayer for Old Age”). He wrote in 1916: “We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body” (introduction to Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa’s Certain Noble Plays of Japan). In the same essay he spoke with foreboding of “a mechanical sequence of ideas.”
As another example, more explicit, here is the poet and translator Philip Sherrard on the Greek poet Anghelos Sikelianos: “He saw [the Western world of his time] as increasingly alienated from those principles which give life significance and beauty and as approaching the condition of a machine out of control and hastening towards destruction… . The organic sense of life was being shattered into countless unconnected fragments… . A system of learning which made extreme demands on the purely mechanical and sterile processes of memory had the effect of absorbing all the spontaneous movements of body and soul of the younger generations” (The Wound of Greece).
Or here is a passage, by the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom, pointed more directly at our specialist system, which he identified as a phase of the Puritanism that began in religion: “You may dissociate the elements of experience and exploit them separately. But then at the best you go on a schedule of small experiences, taking them in turn, and trusting that when the rotation is complete you will have missed nothing. And at the worst you will become so absorbed in some one small experience that you will forget to go on and complete the schedule; in that case you will have missed something. The theory that excellence lies in the perfection of the single functions, and that society should demand that its members be hard specialists, assumes that there is no particular harm in missing something” (The World’s Body).
A proper attention to our language, moreover, informs us that the Greek root of “anatomy” means “dissection,” and that of “analysis” means “to undo.” The two words have essentially the same meaning. Neither suggests a respect for formal integrity. I suppose that the nearest antonym to both is a word we borrow directly from Greek: poiesis, “making” or “creation,” which suggests that the work of the poet, the composer or maker, is the necessary opposite to that of the analyst and the anatomist. Some scientists, I think, are in this sense poets.
Wendell Berry
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Cuando alguien pregunta para qué sirve la filosofía, la respuesta debe ser agresiva, ya que la pregunta se tiene por irónica y mordaz. La filosofía no sirve ni al Estado, ni a la Iglesia, que tiene otras preocupaciones. No sirve a ningún poder establecido. La filosofía sirve para entristecer. Una filosofía que no entristece o no contraria a nadie no es filosofía. Sirve para detestar la estupidez, hace de la estupidez una cosa vergonzosa. Sólo tiene éste uso: denunciar la bajeza del pensamiento en todas sus formas."
Gilles Deleuze
La gente viaja para maravillarse ante las cumbres de las montañas, ante las olas enormes de los mares, ante los grandes cauces de los rios, ante la vasta extensión del océano, ante el movimiento circular de los astros…
y pasan ante ellos mismos sin maravillarse.
- San Agustín
Ted Kaczynski was right
Look, I’m not saying we should all ditch technology and go live in the woods, but Ted Kaczynski wasn’t completely wrong when he said the Industrial Revolution has been a disaster for humanity.
The problem isn’t using technology. it's not even avoiding it. but understanding how it’s reshaped society in ways we never fully grasped. We’ve lost touch with nature, we’re more disconnected from each other than ever, and mental health is spiraling. Technology has taken over our lives to the point where we’re more dependent on it than we realize. We need to start acknowledging that the system we’re in has real, deep problems. You don’t have to be against progress, but you should recognize when it comes with a cost.
Assorted books owned by Ted Kaczynski.
"World history, nature, mathematics and science, languages and works of fiction accounted for many of the titles. Included was a copy of joseph conrad’s the secret agent", a fictional story of a serial bomber."
complete list of books found in his cabin.
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