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#Socrates' end.
AIUI apparently his fellow citizens weren't going to let their way of grieving their dead be disrupted.
#SimonCritchley #TheGreeksTragedyAndUs
#Hemlock
#Grieving

Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

From On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy by Simon Critchley, loc 214: [my emphasis]

By “music” here, I simply mean the music that you love, popular music, unpopular music, the music that made you feel most alive when you first heard it and which you cherish for a lifetime. And there is more sweet music we can hear if we keep our ears open, music which allows access to many more lifetimes than we have at our disposal. Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way. There is a mysticism in the experience of music, a godless mysticism if you like, which operates in the realm of the senses and which resonates within us and beyond us. Sensate ecstasy. My intuition – it is nothing more than that – is that music, common, shared, everyday music, low or high or somewhere in between, is able, at its best, to describe how we feel and to allow us to feel something more.

Which immediately made me think back to discovering ska punk in my early 20s, specifically the almost overwhelming sense of being alive which this music did (and sometimes still can) provoke in me. The ecstasy, to use Critchley’s term, clearly depended on being a pit though which simply stopped feeling safe once I got glasses 🤓😢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGInUeE_Zw&list=RDWXGInUeE_Zw&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruFP5hHe-T4

#capdown #drive #music #mysticism #simonCritchley #skaPunk #streetlightManifesto

@duanetoops @bookstodon
"the absence of crisis."???
There's enough crises in the world already! Start will Fossil Fuel destruction of the environment and then work your way down the list, #SimonCritchley I mean seriously, is Simon from a different century than us??
So far the "guiding principles" have been vacated for Maximized Profit margins, while 2 Billion people on this planet are living on $2.00 per day!
Wow....🤦🏽

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#MastodonHasStopped and thereby saved a post with an image of a Trojan Horse from the following reply:

How about barely associable?
I specialise in that.

That horse statue reminds me of the importance given to grief and revenge in #Aeschylus' tragedies, the #Oresteia.

I'm going to re-state #SimonCritchley's important work as being how the proto-Modernist project of separating off emotions from what is considered the proper understanding of reality goes back at least to #Socrates.

@AbandonedAmerica #TheFloweringOfTheDead

Try reading some Guatemalian highland Mayan mythology as presented by #MartinPrechtel

Book below is one place to start.
https://floweringmountain.com/product/stealing-benefacios-roses/

Or start at DOI: 10.2307/2803473

Our current approach to the dead draws heavily from both #EarlyEuropeanChristianity and #Socrates. And AIUI was a reason that hemlock was ordered. See #SimonCritchley #TragedyTheGreeksAndUs https://youtu.be/_48xuThZty8

Grieving was huge in old EU. Heard of ancestor worship too?

📻 Apply-degger – Podcast mit Simon Critchley über Martin Heideggers „Sein und Zeit“

https://feeds.transistor.fm/apply-degger

#SimonCritchley #Podcast #MartinHeidegger #SeinUndZeit #ApplyDegger #Philosophie