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Poniedzielski - "Elegancka piosenka o szczęściu" pisze: Jak się nie ma, co się lubi
To nie lubi się i tego, co się ma.

Christopher Knight pisze:"Once you get below negative twenty, you purposely don’t think," he told me. His eyes went wide and fearful from the memory. "That’s when you do have religion. You do pray. You pray for warmth."
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I asked him if he just slept all the time, a human hibernation. "Completely wrong," he replied. "It’s dangerous to sleep too long in winter." When seriously frigid weather descended, he conditioned himself to fall asleep at 7:30 P.M. and get up at 2 A.M. "That way, at the depth of cold, I was awake." If he remained in bed any longer, condensation from his body could freeze his sleeping bag. "If you try and sleep through that kind of cold, you might never wake up."

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czw wrz 10, 2020 6:02 pm

Mógłby np. zamieszkać w samochodzie i zimy spędzać na południu. Zakres możliwego kompromisu pomiędzy korzystaniem z cywilizacji i izolacją jest szeroki. Dla mnie ten fragment mówi o tym jak bardzo silną miał potrzebę izolowania się, wolności, żeby wybrać tak ekstremalny sposób życia, ocierając się o śmierć.

"You should have seen me in my twenties," he boasted. "I was lord of the woods. I ruled the land I walked upon. I was tough and clever."

<i dalej, o starzeniu się>
But over time, like an aging athlete, his body began to break down. The biggest issue was his eyesight. "For the last ten years, anything beyond an arm’s length was a blur. I used my ears more than my eyes."

"But you must have thought about things," I said. "About your life, about the human condition."

Chris became surprisingly introspective. "I did examine myself," he said. "Solitude did increase my perception. But here’s the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free."

It's OK to do stupid things once

Goethe pisze:Tylko masy ludzkie poznawają naturę; tylko masy ludzkie przeżywają prawdziwe ludzkie życie

(Nur sämtliche Menschen erkennen die Natur; nur sämtliche Menschen leben das Menschliche[)

na to Jung pisze: Don’t you know that if you choose one hundred of the most intelligent people in the world and get them all together, they are a stupid mob? Ten thousand of them together would have the collective intelligence of an alligator. Haven’t you noticed that at a dinner party the more people you invite the more stupid the conversation? In a crowd, the qualities which everybody possesses multiply, pile up, and become the dominant characteristics of the whole crowd. Not everybody has virtues, but everybody has the low animal instincts, the basic primitive caveman suggestibility, the suspicions and vicious traits of the savage. The result is that when you get a nation of many millions of people, it is not even human. It is a lizard or a crocodile or a wolf. Its statesmen cannot have a higher morality than the animal like mass morality of the nation, although individual statesmen of the democratic states may attempt to behave a little better.

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wt paź 27, 2020 6:57 pm

Może fragmenty wcale nie są ze sobą sprzeczne jak sie na pierwszy rzut oka wydaje a wręcz przeciwnie doskonale się uzupełniają?

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wt paź 27, 2020 7:00 pm

W takim sensie mizantropicznym, że prawdziwe ludzkie życie rozgrywa się na poziomie biologicznym, zwierzęcym ?