Quantum Philosophy
“Because it should be vivid and squawking like a parrot, sudden on a jungle branch, mocking. Because it should be as fragile and potential as a dandelion puff. Because it should be putting your finger in the socket of the universe and being amazed at the bloody blazing. All tigers burn. All bushes burn. All walls burn. You dwell in a controlled conflagration of ferocious delicacy. Like the inside of a ripe pineapple, it’s all gold juice, your life.”
Viv Id was teaching a class in lucid waking in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Quantum School. Her team teacher, Pond Scum, had asked her why she’d spent a life working at busting philosophy out of its turgid and tepid academic prison.
“Because your moments should be like coming upon a rattlesnake as you round a corner in your path. The ominous rattle, the coiled snake, the implacable eyes. you become perfectly poised, the inessential is vanished, calfed, as icebergs fall, away, and you are left bone and heartbeat. You are utter and gathered in a single place. It all acutely matters. That acute mattering is the moving point philosophy ought to reveal to you, remind, reheart to you. For – for washing the dishes. It’s all dangerous. It’s all delicious.
“Just like priests, ministers, gurus stole from us the rage and rampaging, the immediate intimacy between us and Iz, philosophy got all safe and studied. Religion preferred obedience to the promethean fire. The desolating horrors of monotheism and of detachment. You can’t tame philosophy and not be just left with a Golden Retriever or a mangy pelt on the wall. Philosophy is a wolf, and she’ll bloody rip your throat out if you don’t become wise in the ways of the wild.”
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The Greeks seem to refer to actual philosohpical debates in front of groups of people.
In the US there have been these poetry slam things where people read poetry in front of large crowds and get rowdy.
I suppose some place could stage a Metaphysics Slam, though the first question might be how would one determine whether one had been slammed.
That's why we have epistemology, my favorite, the how of stuff & not-so-stuff for that matter — or for that anti-matter &c.
The 3 great Greek topics:
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Ethics
or
What is real?
How do we know?
What is good?
So we can do Epistemology Slams & Dream Slams &c, and all manner of things will be well.
We definitely need to get rowdy again. All this seriousness in philosophy and in Religion and in politics, the Grim Humorless People — Triple Gruesome Ick. Luckily most of 'em'll be Raptured soon, or so I pray.
ps. I would identify myself as an epistemologist, but most folks would look at me blandly and blankly.