Chōkōdō Shujin contemplates how the infinite continuum of the present intertwines with the past, blurring lines between transience and eternity, and redefining our understanding of modernity and progress.
The 'current' and 'eddy' analogy is one that is very useful. It helps one to see how 'durable' can arise from the 'ephemeral'. But, then, I'm a Heraclitian.
If I understand this author's point, those who are fans of 'the eternal' and 'permanent' need to accept that *if 'the modern' can exist* it must partake of 'the eternal'. In other words, however it appears to us mortals, 'fractures' in history are an illusion, a matter of accounting, not counting.
Those who accept the reality of 'the eternal' must accept that everything that can *exists* partakes of 'the eternal'...including the fleeting.
'The modern' is - in some way not easily perceived - an expression of the eternal...which is also the origin of endless change.
The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.
The 'current' and 'eddy' analogy is one that is very useful. It helps one to see how 'durable' can arise from the 'ephemeral'. But, then, I'm a Heraclitian.
If I understand this author's point, those who are fans of 'the eternal' and 'permanent' need to accept that *if 'the modern' can exist* it must partake of 'the eternal'. In other words, however it appears to us mortals, 'fractures' in history are an illusion, a matter of accounting, not counting.
Those who accept the reality of 'the eternal' must accept that everything that can *exists* partakes of 'the eternal'...including the fleeting.
'The modern' is - in some way not easily perceived - an expression of the eternal...which is also the origin of endless change.
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The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.
Ernst Junger
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.
Ernst Junger