tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post7788225968861811989..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Five Brief Riffs on the Oddity of Timemichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-82831395616997856582019-11-06T14:04:13.678-08:002019-11-06T14:04:13.678-08:00I found "Lost Highway" very scary.
I wo...I found "Lost Highway" very scary.<br /><br />I wonder what you would think of Proust's writing on memory.<br /><br />I love Peter Makin's books on Pound.<br /><br />Ten years ago I got really into Pink Floyd again after reading "Inherent Vice".Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-56740378126184251782011-08-01T23:57:20.856-07:002011-08-01T23:57:20.856-07:00Yes, the idea that there "really was" th...Yes, the idea that there "really was" the One True, Idealized Pink Floyd concert, and each of the 23000 people only participated in some limited aspect of it is Platonic bullshit. Even the guys in Pink Floyd experienced the concert in different ways. <br /><br />Plato had a wonderfully artistic idea with his World of Ideas, but the idea has been used by too many pretentious and non-ironic people (most, it seems, w/o much of a sense of humor, either); the One True Reality thing is a trippy idea, but a disaster when people drink it with mother's milk, grow up with it and assume only themselves and their fellow ideologues Know the One True Reality.<br /><br />Besides, the evidence is fantastically and overwhelmingly against the idea. I see no good rational argument for it, much less any empirical ones...But we must admit, given our reading of history that the One True Reality is a "sticky" idea. We must give Plato his due. Or not?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-56792988579234819942011-08-01T22:10:39.903-07:002011-08-01T22:10:39.903-07:00That was a very trippy rewinding milky image up th...That was a very trippy rewinding milky image up there.<br /><br />I find the line, you quote from the film Lost Highway when Fred says: "I...like to remember things my own way"' a very honest one. I think RAW says it in his "The Illuminatus! Trilogy": "The reality is not a one-level affair". Therefore, how we perceive and remember things is a multi-level affair. There could be 23,000 people at Pink Floyd concert and for most of them the time will seem to "flow" (especially at Pink Floyd's) but at 'the same time' most people will perceive and remember the concert in their own different ways. Or so it seems to me.ARW23https://www.blogger.com/profile/12640332269499504745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-1638514663548208502011-07-30T15:47:38.039-07:002011-07-30T15:47:38.039-07:00Yes, timeless. The latest word out of cosmology - ...Yes, timeless. The latest word out of cosmology - that I recall - is that, contrary to a previous theory of the Big Bang --> expanding universe -->matter becomes too diffuse to hold things together --->collapsing universe --Big Crunch (in which Hawking once hypothesized that things would run backward, a reversal of thermodynamics, like running a film strip backward, spilled milk goes back into the glass, then the container, then the supermarket, then the truck, then the farm, then the cow, then the cow's birth, etc...it probably doesn't work like that. <br /><br />And yet: Aldous Huxley has a novel (1944), Time Must Have A Stop. Like most of his novel titles, it's taken from Billy Shakes: "But thought's the slave of life, and life's time's fool, And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop."<br /><br />So...stay tuned.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-69827277034848810692011-07-30T14:13:17.908-07:002011-07-30T14:13:17.908-07:00Time? Timeless subject!
Excellent thought provoki...Time? Timeless subject!<br /><br />Excellent thought provoking/self-referencing article.<br /><br />"Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures." - Henry Frederic Amiel; _ Journal_ (1864)ARW23https://www.blogger.com/profile/12640332269499504745noreply@blogger.com