BTZ42Read: it has happened before

[Mark Kohut]

A screaming is heard from the toilet is what happens.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was just reading in Norman Brown an account of some ideas on the
> psychology of money. His thrust is essentially that money is unavoidably
> irrational/sacred in its cultural origins. I think it is Keynes whom he
> cites as suggesting that gold and silver came to be sacred for the fact
> that they contain the same qualities as the sun and moon. He cites someone
> else--Laum?--as noting that the near-constant historical ratio of gold's
> value to silver's aligns not with supply/demand but with the ratios of the
> solar and lunar astrological cycles. I note it as interesting, at least.
>
> Part of civilization's neurosis has been the illusion that society is
> becoming more secular as the gods are dying--when really we have simply
> placed our faith elsewhere but have repressed the knowledge that it is
> faith and not reason.
>
> All of which is just maybe something I would be interested in keeping in
> mind as I read (though maybe it's more relevant in AtD).
>
> But if we, as a society, have placed our faith in capitalism, and treat as
> sacred a basis for our currency (gold) that is sacred because of its
> symbolic identification with something else sacred (Sun), then what happens
> when we have killed the Sun?
>
> > On Mar 15, 2016, at 4:42 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In late Summer 1969, Heidegger said:
> >
> > "The moon is not the moon anymore."
> >
> >
> >> On 14.03.2016 23:18, ish mailian wrote:
> >> We find it difficult to imagine the
> >> sky in a sacred relationship with the Earth and people, but anyone who
> >> has stood under the stars and felt the mysterious and sublime power of
> >> the sky knows something of the power of of the most high Sky. A
> >> screaming comes across the sky and the source of the scream, if it be
> >> a man made revelation of power, then the Sky, as Nietzsche says of
> >> God, is Dead.
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