There is not Truth.
There are only Survivors.
There are honorable survivors, and those who survive by dishonest and dishonorable means.
Those latter are not survivors, for they will be cut short.
The honorable will sprout again in the next Springtime.
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This reminds me of what I read yesterday, from Rob Brezsny, which I wanted to send you in an email, and then decided against it. But now I'll post it here:
My old philosophy professor Norman O. Brown would periodically
interrupt his lectures, tilt his head upward as if tuning in to the whisper of some heavenly voice, and announce in a puckish tone, "It's time for your irregular reminder: We're already living after the end of the world. No need to fret anymore."
The implication was that the worst had already happened. We had lost
much of the cultural riches that had given humans meaning for centuries. All that was going to be taken from us had already been taken.
On the bright side, that meant we were utterly free to reinvent ourselves. Living amidst the emptiness, we had nowhere to go but up. What remained was alienating, but it was also fresh.
Working from the hypothesis that you're living after the end of the world, what are you free to do that you weren't able to do before? Who are you free to be?
That's very good. And I loved a number of Norman Brown's books. I do not think I have any of his books with me anymore, but... no, as soon as I wrote this, I remembered I still have one.
I may be mistaken, but I believe it has to do with Hermes, the Greek god of any number of things, including being the divine messenger. I'm positive I still have it.
It is an inspiring and hopeful quote.
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