Accessing time
Schopenhauer's historic achievement was to dust off the history of what has been essential through time at a time when people lost sight of it and either turned to their whims or bodies through which they could participate in world government, the former leading to apathy and the latter to self-mechanisation.
The banker rules the tribe of the psychological hunchbacks who live to prove that they are bigger than the next guy like a king, without his subjects even knowing how he raises or lowers them.
He stepped forward to replace the aristocrat, who had turned to idle pursuits, only to end with idle pursuits himself.
It is not that the two lacked a greater aim, the guiding light of what's holy, it is only that not experiencing the essential anymore themselves they forgot what it was and couldn't understand their holy texts any longer.
Some aristocrats though understood the times and established functional aristocracies through the institutions of the state, first in France, if we may call Napoléon an aristocrat, then in Prussia. Anyway, it matters not whom the institutions serve, it only matters that they give common people the chance to become part of the ruling class, thus raising them out of the unessentialness of their lives into the responsibilities of the state.
This is an encroachment on the kingdom of the banker, which takes its fuel from that part of humanity that doesn't consist of psychological hunchbacks, but the ends to which it leads these people seldom coincide with their natural places in the world, for the mass appeal of this route lies in forgetting that governance is not an end in itself.
Universities, of course, are state sponsored, which is something else. Amongst other things they serve to bind the intellectual elite of a people to the idea of a national body, whose head they form, which is a very effective way to prevent them from dissecting the state.
We have institutionalised self-unawareness, overbearingness and doggedness, and amongst the ones provided with sufficient leisure a wandering, unsteady spirit. And we have it since Napoléon's days. It really is not a pretty sight and I am immensely grateful to Arthur Schopenhauer for having taken a spiritual turn, without which I cannot imagine to have found the key to access my time.
The banker rules the tribe of the psychological hunchbacks who live to prove that they are bigger than the next guy like a king, without his subjects even knowing how he raises or lowers them.
He stepped forward to replace the aristocrat, who had turned to idle pursuits, only to end with idle pursuits himself.
It is not that the two lacked a greater aim, the guiding light of what's holy, it is only that not experiencing the essential anymore themselves they forgot what it was and couldn't understand their holy texts any longer.
Some aristocrats though understood the times and established functional aristocracies through the institutions of the state, first in France, if we may call Napoléon an aristocrat, then in Prussia. Anyway, it matters not whom the institutions serve, it only matters that they give common people the chance to become part of the ruling class, thus raising them out of the unessentialness of their lives into the responsibilities of the state.
This is an encroachment on the kingdom of the banker, which takes its fuel from that part of humanity that doesn't consist of psychological hunchbacks, but the ends to which it leads these people seldom coincide with their natural places in the world, for the mass appeal of this route lies in forgetting that governance is not an end in itself.
Universities, of course, are state sponsored, which is something else. Amongst other things they serve to bind the intellectual elite of a people to the idea of a national body, whose head they form, which is a very effective way to prevent them from dissecting the state.
We have institutionalised self-unawareness, overbearingness and doggedness, and amongst the ones provided with sufficient leisure a wandering, unsteady spirit. And we have it since Napoléon's days. It really is not a pretty sight and I am immensely grateful to Arthur Schopenhauer for having taken a spiritual turn, without which I cannot imagine to have found the key to access my time.
Labels: 21, geschichte, gesellschaftsentwurf, gesellschaftskritik, gesetze, institutionen, metaphysik, rezension, sehhilfen, wahrnehmungen, zeitgeschichte, φιλοσοφία
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