A Human Strategy, Matt Berry aphorism 72

72
From the horrible monster, Reality, we organize ourselves behind a standard, en masse, ... in brilliant tactical retreats.  Forever looking for a fixed, naturally fortified position from which to make a final stand.  A few of us exhaust ourselves in the attempt, see the futility, stray, then unconditionally surrender all that we have.  The irony is that only then do we find our sanctuary ... but within the walls of our former fear, Realism, and the new horror is not that we have become, nor even that we always have been, this solitary monster, but that now the others have found us out.  




A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism



Popular posts from this blog

A valuable book, A Human Strategy, aphorism 387

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
Read more
The Ascetic Impulse: We think we deliberately hurt ourselves when it is simply that we do know which version of ourselves will satisfy our needs more fully. We try on a personality as if trying on new clothes. Bizarrely, the self we beat up has heretofore been a complete stranger.
Read more