BTZ42Read: it has happened before

[Ian Livingston]

Is that screaming or the cry of a shit-blown harp?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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