Life in a jar
22nd December, 2008.
Philosophers such as Whitehead have argued that life is a process. Nothing stands still – except sometimes in my mind when I recall, not the event, but a memory of it. Like some drag-queen parody, a distorted reality, that changes its disguise to suit my fancy. This is my subjective experience.
But sometimes in my dreams I sit gently with the essence of that experience and know it to be a shared and universal phenomenon – a Jungian, collective consciousness. This is the encounter with the eternal . This is peaceful. Only in our minds can time stand still – only conceptually do we access reality, for its imitations slip daily through our grasp. And it worries us that we can’t pin down this elusive present. And that makes us sad that we can’t put it in a jar and keep it forever, and watch it die.
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
http://the-ed-rush.blogspot.com/2008/12/expectation-of-information-conversation.html
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
[Apologies for that last post - browser glitch. What I meant to say was:]
Beautiful image.
It’s striking that you are thinking about Whitehead in the context of/around cck08. I found my way back to him recently by participating in a distributed reading group on McLuhan’s Medium is the Massage. McLuhan quotes Whitehead liberally throughout, and to striking effect. So I have gone back to the source. He seems to speak well to the times, or at least to those of us in these times questioning what and how knowledge and education are and could be. And so the following: http://the-ed-rush.blogspot.com/2008/12/expectation-of-information-conversation.html