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[epilo]

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[whispering_rain]

*hugs*

[quietjaneeyre]

(hugs)

[ombilic_des]

This passage is not direct, one cannot account for it within a continuous evolutionary narrative: something has to intervene between the two, a kind of "vanishing mediator," which is neither Nature nor Culture - this In-between is not the spark of logos magically conferred on homo sapiens, enabling him to form his supplementary virtual symbolic environs, but precisely something which, although it is also no longer nature, is not yet logos, and has to be "repressed" by logos - the Freudian name for this monstrous freedom, of course, is death drive. It is interesting to note how philosophical narratives of the "birth of man" are always compelled to presuppose a moment in human (pre)history when (what will become) man, is no longer a mere animal and simultaneously not yet a "being of language," bound by symbolic Law; a moment of thoroughly "perverted," "denaturalized", "derailed" nature which is not yet culture. In his anthropological writings, Kant emphasized that the human animal needs disciplinary pressure in order to tame an uncanny

[rilan]

I'm glad you posted it. I don't get this view into your head very often. I'm sorry I'm not there more. I'd like to be, to offer you the same kindness you've offered me.

For my part, I try not to regret things - either things I've done or haven't done. For the things I haven't done, I content myself with the ones I have. How does it go - shoot for the moon and you'll land among the stars? Basically that we all set our sights unrealistically high and that if we do five things out of the fifty we want to do, that's not bad. Alternately, if there's something you really want to do, the only way to do it is to just keep on pushing and to make it do or die.

I'm coming up to visit next weekend, and I'd love to see you if you're around.

[at_resonance]

If you want my advice, it's below. If you just want someone to listen, know that I can relate to how you're feeling and that I echo the above sentiments (including hugs), and then disregard the rest of this