“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, July 4, 2013

WTF Is Going On?

"Up until now thought has changed the world. The point is only to interpret it in various ways."
Discuss.

4 comments:

Henry Warwick said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfpHfq40A_I

Johnny Be Good said...

What exactly is the point then?

J.M. said...

What is realizing prajna if not a thoroughgoing reinterpretation of the world? Doesn't this also count as change?

EJ Tangel said...

“Thought” has been rendered largely superfluous, pushed aside forcefully, by the teleology of Capital and the theology of Capitalism. Now Capital changes the world and thinkers comment on that...

http://www.tecumsehproject.org/capitalism-and-unhappiness.html

EJ Tangel