Slowly and deliberately advancing towards the prospects of a stable place to work and a living culture to draw forth the work. I'm not the one to save the Republic. Frankly, I might be the only one who has noticed the difficulty, given the general prosperity for the comfortable preponderance, and the power of television culture. But I doubt I'll be able to do much here in the length of a normal human lifetime.
A stable place to work and a living culture to draw forth the work.
I actually doubted it myself, when I first started writing about it at the beginning of the springtime. But it has proved to be true -- with the heat, the social forms arise, and there's something in the general mind here that is simply an attack on those thought poor or vulnerable. Wealth is vindication, and a sign of favor from the divinity that is no longer thought to exist. Add the corruption at the top, and it needs no Solomon to realize that Joseph would be better off in Egypt, given the mimetic fury of the elder brothers.
I must get back to modern philosophy. I've been reading Dewey's stuff, and he's careful not to challenge the mind too much, and that has its downside. If I'm not thinking as hard as I can, the day is wasted. Dewey had the comforts of office and reputation (not to mention income) -- the fellow in the road outside has only his purchase on the world.