Berenson on Journalists

They don't have even a basic understanding of their jobs. Or is it well, they DO paychecks tell them so

In our era, as in the prior eras, we are shocked, shocked, perturbed that in our our disclosed world that there is no limit to truth disclosed as symbol. Agamben did square the circle: it’s not that citizens across the West have the right to health safety; now they are juridically forced (italics mine) to be healthy. That, in a nutshell, is what biosecurity is all about.

So no wonder biosecurity is an ultra-efficient totalitarianism. Leon Bloy writes “It is the most threadbare of illusions to believe that we are really what we seem to be; and this universal illusion is corroborated, all during life, by the stubborn imposture of all our senses. Nothing less than death will be needed to teach us that we are always mistaken. At the same time as will be revealed to us our identity, now so utterly unknown to us, inconceivable abysses will unveil themselves to our true eyes, abysses within us and without. Men, things, events will at last be made clear to us, and each will be able to verify the assertion of that mystic who said that, starting from the Fall, the whole of mankind fell sound asleep.”

Our local news busy spreading fear propaganda around Omicron and online news speaking of the recurrent episodes of nations becoming mad and Empires crumbling to ruin. — “Primus inter pares.—The pupil continued: Religions seemed to be determined by regions like nationalities. Swedenborg hints at something of the sort, saying that people have the religion which they ought to have. Those who have no religion are tramps and vagabonds, pariahs and gipsies, scoundrels and swindlers. They think they are at home everywhere, but are so only on the high-roads, in the market-places, behind the circus-stable, in the alehouse. When Lessing asserts in Nathan der Weise that all religions are equally good, he shows that he has not understood Christianity, which is the beginning and end of the world's history. The Muhammedans are certainly religious, more religious than the Christians, and among the adherents of Islam are many sects, but no atheistic ones. All observe the hours of prayer, fasts, and daily washings. Muhammed was no Christ-hater. But they are alien to our climate. Still we have something to learn from them; they are not ashamed to show their religion, “while we shuffle with it. They are not only religious on Sundays but every day and all day.

"But, if we heard that a Christian had gone over to Islam we should regard it as a fall from the higher to the lower, while the conversion of a Muhammedan to Christianity would be hailed as an ascent. Saladin was certainly noble and Nathan wise, but the nobleness of the former had somewhat of a pose about it, and the wisdom of the latter was of the same homely kind as Voltaire's. On the other hand, Godfrey de Bouillon accepted the crown of thorns instead of the king's crown, and St. Louis gave his life for the wisdom which surpasses all understanding.

Excerpt From

Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts

August Strindberg

What has HAPPENED to reporters?