“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, November 27, 2015

Why Is This So Good?

"When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.' " --Shunryu Suzuki

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The koan here is that there is no riddle. It illustrates the Hyperobject.

It strikes me that TM's work can also be viewed as a considered non-fiction version of Kurt Vonnegut. I actually never cared for KV's writing but what I read was enormously insightful. With TM I get positive affect and insight. One might seed clouds 100 km to the West or game the koan in some reductive manner but the abundance of rain as an idea is always there. Sort of like Jenny Holzer's aphorism "the time is always now".

Taking out incorporation papers for the Church of OOO soon and I hope to be its first registered minister.

Timothy Morton said...

Damn John. That's gotta be one of the nicest things anyone ever said on this blog...