Matt Berry, author of A Human Strategy, The Mechanics of Virtue and Post-Atheism.
A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 183
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We do not want a fair fight. We want a higher rank. If we are demanding a fair fight, maybe we should reconsider the whole affair, since only those with disadvantages appeal to fairness.
387 A valuable book may be torn to pieces without diminishing the human spirit, just so long as the words have already been read and understood. To feel the loss of the book — at its material destruction, even though one had already digested its contents fully and had aligned oneself toward its overall direction — is evidence that one values the non-human being over human becoming , the static thing over the dynamic process . In response to the fear of our unknowable future we would rather freeze ourselves into a single stage of growth at the expense of the entire metamorphosis. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism
A benefactor's Moral Guide: what do you want that will not result in your ultimate dishonor? **** Meditation: "How do I get back to where I want to be?"
Interest is not in what you see. It’s in what you don’t see. It is sensed incompleteness completed reflexively by the spectator. It is a conflict in the otherwise imperceptible feeling that a sensory organ is “inadequate” … a mastery of scratching irritations, an “I” … “the” I. We love art the most when we scratch ourselves with what we view. Art is valued at the interest that the passion from the incompletes in the work is instantly and successful satisfied by what the lover needs to sense … every time it senses the art. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism