"They would witness the rise and fall of stars, see galaxies collide and merge and observe the slow dance of cosmic evolution firsthand. With time rendered almost irrelevant, they could embark on projects of unimaginable scale and scope […]”
No. They will get to see how online games change and discover new tech for posting selfies
Few people have any sense of curiosity about life outside of their daily living and celebrities. Some pretend to have a sense of curiosity to gain status but are unwilling to let the curiosity lead them to difficult, unpopular and unsanctioned insights
In Fydor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" when the saintly Father Zozima finally dies it is expected by all the town folk that his body will be wholesomely preserved. Instead it begins to rot, putrefy and stink almost immediately.
Aloyosha, the lecherous older Karamazov's saintly seeming son, then understands that there are no saints among us.
And he, Aloyosha, must make his way in the world with all the sinners.
Bummer that Fyodor didn't get to write the sequel. I thought I read somewhere that The Brothers Karamazov was meant as only the setup for the second novel.
You may be correct. I had never heard that. Frankly both Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are a little over my head. I usually need to get a sort of Cliff Notes after I've read one of their books to fully understand it. But that's better than never reading them at all which is I'm sure the case for the vast majority of Americans. I've heard rumors that Americans being granted four year college academic degrees and even PhDs can barely read nowadays. See e.g. Dr. Morris Berman on this topic. He has written eloquently about it and has witnessed illiteracy in America and among American college students having been a college professor here. (He now resides in Mexico.)
Cliff Notes to read the Brothers K? Hell, I need them to figure out what went on in the latest 30 second commercial where people do goofy dances for no apparent reason that relates to any advertised product or service I can discern.
Morris Berman was someone I was always interested in. His titles like Re-enchantment of the World, Coming to Our Senses, and Why America Failed, continue to intrigue me. But w/ a little research, he failed the crypto-J test. The name and face inclined me to think so. Then there's the lack of info re parents. He was born in the US but moved to Mexico, kind of an alienating lefty move in itself. In a video interview he faults the American people, the 99%, as why the US failed. Institutions have failed because the people are apathetic. They just want to join the 1% not abolish or overthrow them.
No mention of Js being over represented in the 1%. Only an anti-Semite would notice that. Well, good riddance, creep-o.
Still I'm going to try to secure that first 1981 Re-Enchantment book. My library doesn't carry it, only the more recent titles.
your library probably has interlibrary loan. I get many otherwise hard to find books that way especially as the kinds of books I read are those the powers that be would prefer nobody reads/
Thank you for that view on Morris Berman. I recall I once tried to comment on his blog and he was quite belittling toward me. He does seem to have a sort of general contempt for Americans (including me).
This is just my subjective view (I obviously can't read Dr. Berman's mind) but he does seem to feel himself to be far superior to us Americans.
I have read and enjoyed Russian literature ever since college half a century ago, and still read it, especially the pre-Soviet classic literature. Like you, I have a subjective feeling that I am missing a lot, so I too will sometimes resort to commentary after reading one.
I never heard that Dostoevsky intended to write a sequel to "The Brothers"--it would no doubt have been an interesting one. But the sequel I miss most is the book that was to follow Gogol's "Dead Souls". That is one of my favorite Russian novels, and we never find out what Chichikov intended to do with all the dead serfs he was collecting titles to. Gogol wrote most of the sequel, but in a fit of frustration and near-madness, he threw the manuscript into the fire, and only a few short pages survived. I only found this out after reading the original, and was really bummed out.
The part of this about having multiple bodies sounds like the world of "Altered Carbon" (Netflix). Bodies are referred to as "sleeves", and one's essence is stored in his "stack", which is embedded in his neck. As long as the "stack" is not damaged, bodily death simply meant having the stack relocated to another "sleeve." An interesting part of that world was the presence of demonstrators protesting that humans should be allowed to die naturally.
I've always thought art should be a celebration of life which would include the living slumber or the Moon in the night sky. Death is just an uncomfortable subject that people use in art like hacks use sex in comedy.
"I don't need no college degree to f*cking push people around and tell 'dem what to do!" "All I need is to point my finger and wag it in 'der f*ckin' face."
Quoted from one of my high-school drop out, illiterate house-mates.
Perhaps The Raw Youth [also translated as The Adolescent], Arkady, circa 1874 [a philosophical treatise], which predates the four Brothers, circa 1880, then perhaps this novel is a quasi- sequel. [[As Devils [or Demons, or Beasts, or The Possessed] perhaps a sort of quasi- sequel to The Idiot?]]
The bastard [or "illegitimate"] raw youth become, also, Alyosha, in Brothers, that? -- and? a non-bastard child; and the "half-brother" to the bastard child in Brothers.
"You must understand, Arkady, that I'm not talking about genuine believers in progress but about our rabble, which now appears so numerous, of whom it has been said 'Grattez le Russe et vous trouvez le Tartare.'` And take my word for it, there are nowhere near as many true liberals and genuine humanitarians among us as we have been led to believe." [ `Scratch the Russian and you find the Tartar]
PS
Yesterday while walking early afternoon there was a dead calico [large] cat set on cardboard on sidewalk, the sun beating down, flies buzzing. Set in front of a house.
An hour later I mentioned this to someone I passed by and knew; he said that morning a woman had posted of Facebook she'd hit a cat, and placed it on side of road.
An hour later I returned home, seeing the dead cat laying on cardboard. I walked to police station and told them.
Early that evening another walk to the park, and the cat still on the cardboard.
Finishing the walk an hour later, there was a couple looking at the dead cat.
We spoke, telling them I had notified police in the afternoon. They said they think they know who owns the cat, and their house is right across the street,.
He knocked on the front door, then the side door; no one answered. I knocked on the front door, ditto.
He told me he heard music inside and that their car is in the driveway.
We went back across the street: he picked up the cardboard and carried the cat across the street, placing on sidewalk at the purported owners' walkway.
"They would witness the rise and fall of stars, see galaxies collide and merge and observe the slow dance of cosmic evolution firsthand. With time rendered almost irrelevant, they could embark on projects of unimaginable scale and scope […]”
No. They will get to see how online games change and discover new tech for posting selfies
Few people have any sense of curiosity about life outside of their daily living and celebrities. Some pretend to have a sense of curiosity to gain status but are unwilling to let the curiosity lead them to difficult, unpopular and unsanctioned insights
In Fydor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" when the saintly Father Zozima finally dies it is expected by all the town folk that his body will be wholesomely preserved. Instead it begins to rot, putrefy and stink almost immediately.
Aloyosha, the lecherous older Karamazov's saintly seeming son, then understands that there are no saints among us.
And he, Aloyosha, must make his way in the world with all the sinners.
Bummer that Fyodor didn't get to write the sequel. I thought I read somewhere that The Brothers Karamazov was meant as only the setup for the second novel.
You may be correct. I had never heard that. Frankly both Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are a little over my head. I usually need to get a sort of Cliff Notes after I've read one of their books to fully understand it. But that's better than never reading them at all which is I'm sure the case for the vast majority of Americans. I've heard rumors that Americans being granted four year college academic degrees and even PhDs can barely read nowadays. See e.g. Dr. Morris Berman on this topic. He has written eloquently about it and has witnessed illiteracy in America and among American college students having been a college professor here. (He now resides in Mexico.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Berman#:~:text=Morris%20Berman%20(born%20August%203,Johns%20Hopkins%20University%20in%201971.
Cliff Notes to read the Brothers K? Hell, I need them to figure out what went on in the latest 30 second commercial where people do goofy dances for no apparent reason that relates to any advertised product or service I can discern.
Morris Berman was someone I was always interested in. His titles like Re-enchantment of the World, Coming to Our Senses, and Why America Failed, continue to intrigue me. But w/ a little research, he failed the crypto-J test. The name and face inclined me to think so. Then there's the lack of info re parents. He was born in the US but moved to Mexico, kind of an alienating lefty move in itself. In a video interview he faults the American people, the 99%, as why the US failed. Institutions have failed because the people are apathetic. They just want to join the 1% not abolish or overthrow them.
No mention of Js being over represented in the 1%. Only an anti-Semite would notice that. Well, good riddance, creep-o.
Still I'm going to try to secure that first 1981 Re-Enchantment book. My library doesn't carry it, only the more recent titles.
your library probably has interlibrary loan. I get many otherwise hard to find books that way especially as the kinds of books I read are those the powers that be would prefer nobody reads/
Thank you for that view on Morris Berman. I recall I once tried to comment on his blog and he was quite belittling toward me. He does seem to have a sort of general contempt for Americans (including me).
This is just my subjective view (I obviously can't read Dr. Berman's mind) but he does seem to feel himself to be far superior to us Americans.
I have read and enjoyed Russian literature ever since college half a century ago, and still read it, especially the pre-Soviet classic literature. Like you, I have a subjective feeling that I am missing a lot, so I too will sometimes resort to commentary after reading one.
I never heard that Dostoevsky intended to write a sequel to "The Brothers"--it would no doubt have been an interesting one. But the sequel I miss most is the book that was to follow Gogol's "Dead Souls". That is one of my favorite Russian novels, and we never find out what Chichikov intended to do with all the dead serfs he was collecting titles to. Gogol wrote most of the sequel, but in a fit of frustration and near-madness, he threw the manuscript into the fire, and only a few short pages survived. I only found this out after reading the original, and was really bummed out.
The part of this about having multiple bodies sounds like the world of "Altered Carbon" (Netflix). Bodies are referred to as "sleeves", and one's essence is stored in his "stack", which is embedded in his neck. As long as the "stack" is not damaged, bodily death simply meant having the stack relocated to another "sleeve." An interesting part of that world was the presence of demonstrators protesting that humans should be allowed to die naturally.
I've always thought art should be a celebration of life which would include the living slumber or the Moon in the night sky. Death is just an uncomfortable subject that people use in art like hacks use sex in comedy.
"I don't need no college degree to f*cking push people around and tell 'dem what to do!" "All I need is to point my finger and wag it in 'der f*ckin' face."
Quoted from one of my high-school drop out, illiterate house-mates.
Perhaps The Raw Youth [also translated as The Adolescent], Arkady, circa 1874 [a philosophical treatise], which predates the four Brothers, circa 1880, then perhaps this novel is a quasi- sequel. [[As Devils [or Demons, or Beasts, or The Possessed] perhaps a sort of quasi- sequel to The Idiot?]]
The bastard [or "illegitimate"] raw youth become, also, Alyosha, in Brothers, that? -- and? a non-bastard child; and the "half-brother" to the bastard child in Brothers.
"You must understand, Arkady, that I'm not talking about genuine believers in progress but about our rabble, which now appears so numerous, of whom it has been said 'Grattez le Russe et vous trouvez le Tartare.'` And take my word for it, there are nowhere near as many true liberals and genuine humanitarians among us as we have been led to believe." [ `Scratch the Russian and you find the Tartar]
PS
Yesterday while walking early afternoon there was a dead calico [large] cat set on cardboard on sidewalk, the sun beating down, flies buzzing. Set in front of a house.
An hour later I mentioned this to someone I passed by and knew; he said that morning a woman had posted of Facebook she'd hit a cat, and placed it on side of road.
An hour later I returned home, seeing the dead cat laying on cardboard. I walked to police station and told them.
Early that evening another walk to the park, and the cat still on the cardboard.
Finishing the walk an hour later, there was a couple looking at the dead cat.
We spoke, telling them I had notified police in the afternoon. They said they think they know who owns the cat, and their house is right across the street,.
He knocked on the front door, then the side door; no one answered. I knocked on the front door, ditto.
He told me he heard music inside and that their car is in the driveway.
We went back across the street: he picked up the cardboard and carried the cat across the street, placing on sidewalk at the purported owners' walkway.
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