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Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun (excerpt)
"...Keep your splendid, silent sun;
Keep your woods, O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods;
Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards;
Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields, where the Ninth-month bees hum;
Give me faces and streets! give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
Give me interminable eyes! give me women! give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!
Let me see new ones every day! let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
Give me such shows! give me the streets of Manhattan!..."
--Walt Whitman
i read Wolno's definition of existentialism again. it doesnt make any sense, but part of really got me thinking. he wrote:
"EXISTENTIALISM POSTULATES THAT IN A GODLESS UNIVERSE, FREEDOM OF ACTION IS INFINITE, BUT SOCIAL ORDER DEMANDS RESTRAINTS BE PLACED ON THOSE FREEDOMS."
True. but he didnt elaborate on this idea, and so i was left thinking, isnt freedom of action infinite even in a universe in which god exists? maybe i dont understand, having grown up in what could be considered a "godless universe," but when is freedom of action finite? even with the restraints of social order, one has the freedom to do what one wishes, but there are consequences. social order does not really demand that restraints are placed on those ideals, it only makes certain actions punishable, thus creating dualistic ideas, that is, creating "good" actions and "bad" actions, or i suppose "right" and "wrong."
what are your thoughts on this? if only mosh had a lj...then we could all have some fun.
peace
m
"...Keep your splendid, silent sun;
Keep your woods, O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods;
Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards;
Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields, where the Ninth-month bees hum;
Give me faces and streets! give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
Give me interminable eyes! give me women! give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!
Let me see new ones every day! let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
Give me such shows! give me the streets of Manhattan!..."
--Walt Whitman
i read Wolno's definition of existentialism again. it doesnt make any sense, but part of really got me thinking. he wrote:
"EXISTENTIALISM POSTULATES THAT IN A GODLESS UNIVERSE, FREEDOM OF ACTION IS INFINITE, BUT SOCIAL ORDER DEMANDS RESTRAINTS BE PLACED ON THOSE FREEDOMS."
True. but he didnt elaborate on this idea, and so i was left thinking, isnt freedom of action infinite even in a universe in which god exists? maybe i dont understand, having grown up in what could be considered a "godless universe," but when is freedom of action finite? even with the restraints of social order, one has the freedom to do what one wishes, but there are consequences. social order does not really demand that restraints are placed on those ideals, it only makes certain actions punishable, thus creating dualistic ideas, that is, creating "good" actions and "bad" actions, or i suppose "right" and "wrong."
what are your thoughts on this? if only mosh had a lj...then we could all have some fun.
peace
m