We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things.
We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
We have spent our entire existence adapting.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.