“Is the desire for transcendence a matter of psychology—in which case it’s advisable to seek a good cure? Or is the existence of that desire fundamental to any experience we could recognize as human?” – Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought
Ain’t no cure for heaven
May 3rd, 2012 · 4 Comments
Tags: Lit & Crit
4 responses so far ↓
1 CJ // May 3, 2012 at 11:08 am
I vote fundamental. Essential to an artist.
2 Tetman Callis // May 3, 2012 at 12:16 pm
I agree. And essential to all people, I believe. Beware of those in lab coats and expensive suits who would seek to cure us of it or appropriate it for their own repressive ends.
3 CJ // May 3, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Yes, without imaginative transcendence there’s no space for empathy. Or steamed artichoke. Who’d have thought?
4 Tetman Callis // May 3, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Yes. The artichoke. How hungry did the first artichoke eater have to be to consider that that thing could be a food?
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