In 1963 Wilfrid Sellars, in Science, Perception and Reality wrote that -
The scientific image of the world] purports to be a complete image,i.e., to define a framework which could be the whole truth about that which belongs to the image. Thus although methodologically a development within the manifest image, the scientific image presents itself as a rival image. From its point of view the manifest image on which it rests is an 'inadequate' but pragmatically useful likeness of a reality which first finds its adequate (in principle) likeness in the scientific image.
The Kerouac style of writing spontaneously with first thought best thought earns me few readers. Lingering Sanity as my peculiar experimental art finds an audience. A hybrid style is not what many like. I am pleased to have readers fit though few. Indeed this style is the same for nearly 40 years. Cursed by the many years prior of modernist writers who taught me to write, now 66 and still unpublished, spontaneous me enjoys red hot words, as a glass blower red hot language I shape.
I appreciate glass words. Substack, my medium, has a readership, and this forces me to say glass blowing is an art and Chilhuly I am not. Be it so. I still play with glassy colored words and hope that readers retain some residual lingering sanity.
Why do we wait to have freedom? This piece of glass I have blown for 55 years. First for me was Vietnam. Then the endless wars. After 2020 once available, each day someone is vaccinated for Covid-19 and if sources are accurate their torture and death are needless, not necessary, What are we waiting for? Nancy Reagan insisted NO on drugs. Why not Trump insisting no vaccine? Do we need Trump to legitimize death? Do we need RFK, Jr.?
What are we waiting to have happen to stop this madness? Why does it require Lingering Sanity to say experts you are fools as much as frauds? Have you no courage? Testify all you want. Nothing changes. Lead or leave.
Aloh na’aleh, let’s go up. Let us ascend. Yachol nuchal, surely we can achieve it. Yachol nuchal, surely we can. This is Caleb, who jumps on top of a stool to urge Israel forward into the land Moses saw but could not settle.
What will be needed to make up our mind? We are not in 1922.
Berdyaev: In the social-political movements prevail principles of coercion and authority, with a diminishing of the freedom of man -- in Communism, in Fascism, in National Socialism there triumphs a new victory of materialism both economic and racial. Man as it were has grown tired of spiritual freedom and is prepared to renounce it in the name of power, with which to order his life, both inward and outward. Man has grown tired of himself, of man, has lost the confidence in man and wants to leap off to the supra-human, even though this supra-human be a social collective. Many of the old idols have been toppled in our time, but many new idols have likewise been created. Man is so constituted, that he can live either with a faith in God, or with a faith in ideals and idols. In essence, man cannot consistently and ultimately be an atheist. Having fallen away from the faith in God, he falls into idolatry. We can see the idol-worship and the fashioning of idols within every sphere -- in science, in art, in statecraft, and in national and social life. And thus, for example, Communism is an extreme form of social idolatry.
Covid-19 is greater idolatry still.
Why do so many do so little but pretend the legal process exists?
This Shoah does not discriminate. Everyone gets to die by injection,
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/deaths-covid-shots-versus-flu-vaccines-vaers-dmed/
https://ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
I appreciate your posts very much in the form they're presented. I read J.K. some twenty years ago ("On the road") and still remember the pleasure.
Humans ay? Wasn't too taxing till it got really bad. Everyone was doing "their thing", wasn't good sometimes but "that's life" and only now we see the enormity of lies and deception. No way of knowing how will it all end up.
I know it is "the way of the world" but it just makes me want to weep.
Thank you for your work 🙂
Like the parable of the elephant rope, we allow our minds to be hobbled by the relentless programming toxicants (physical, mental, energetic) they marinate us in beginning in the womb.
Our Sisyphean task from birth onward seems to be clear our innate channel through to God, Truth and Love through the well-laid, multi-layered toxic/fatal obstacle course of life.
“The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.” ― Hermann Hesse
Gratitude, respect and love to you for posting orienteering hints along the path that help us do the work.