Modes of fallenness like 'idle talk' don't disclose the primordial nature of being and they silence the call of conscience, this disclosure and this calling depend on states arrived at through angst: namely on care for seeing and on being in but not of the world so to speak. A wrong relationship to, and being tangled up and trapped in, idle talk (and a wrong relationship to tékhnē) hand waves away and explains away both the reality of ourselves and of the world that we are in.
"To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places...To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away and never, never, to forget." ~ Arundhati Roy
Friday 28 June 2024
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