Another excellent transmission! Thanks brother Erik. I meant to watch The Disciple but it slipped off my radar (Netflix queue) so thanks for the reminder and nudge. I discovered Sanjit Ray earlier this year thanks to Criterion, but have only watched his funny and sharply critical film about the yoga guru. All the best from Vancouver Island
Hey there. Glad you enjoyed the talk. I find as I get older I grieve harder about lives not lived, even as I appreciate that one I am living (and, to a degree, the one I actually lived) more. Same thing with books -- I mean, maybe all of Proust or Finnegans Wake *just isnt going to happen*. Not sure what to do about that.
I had a big dose of higher education when I was a young man but I was very glad I avoided academia for twenty years before getting my PhD. I think the important thing is to keep your noggin lively, the questions sharp, the heady books in the mix...(even if you don't finish them).
I liked Ishmael a lot when I read it many years ago. Most of all I remember the perspective of a nonhuman on the human predicament. It offered an intelligent holistic anti-anthropocentric "species" view that didnt fall into some of the easy romanticism of a lot of New Age critiques of contemporary civilization. I also remain largely convinced by the idea that "the Fall" is really the fall into agriculture. But I need to reread it now!
Thank you! This looks outstanding.
Sounds great. Definitely watch the extraordinary Pather Panchali, although be prepared for an emotional gut punch.
Another excellent transmission! Thanks brother Erik. I meant to watch The Disciple but it slipped off my radar (Netflix queue) so thanks for the reminder and nudge. I discovered Sanjit Ray earlier this year thanks to Criterion, but have only watched his funny and sharply critical film about the yoga guru. All the best from Vancouver Island
Brian
Hey there. Glad you enjoyed the talk. I find as I get older I grieve harder about lives not lived, even as I appreciate that one I am living (and, to a degree, the one I actually lived) more. Same thing with books -- I mean, maybe all of Proust or Finnegans Wake *just isnt going to happen*. Not sure what to do about that.
I had a big dose of higher education when I was a young man but I was very glad I avoided academia for twenty years before getting my PhD. I think the important thing is to keep your noggin lively, the questions sharp, the heady books in the mix...(even if you don't finish them).
I liked Ishmael a lot when I read it many years ago. Most of all I remember the perspective of a nonhuman on the human predicament. It offered an intelligent holistic anti-anthropocentric "species" view that didnt fall into some of the easy romanticism of a lot of New Age critiques of contemporary civilization. I also remain largely convinced by the idea that "the Fall" is really the fall into agriculture. But I need to reread it now!
Sometimes it is best just to look away....