Let Us Now Praise Famous (II)
Today is 5 May 2006.
[This is the second of two posts for 5 May. Suggest read below first, but don't let Moi trample on anyone's right to ketchup in the wrong way.)
1813 - Danish philosopher/theologian (the first existentialist?) Soren Kierkegaard born.
1818 - Karl Marx born.
1972 - Legendary blind blues guitarist Rev. Gary Davis dies.
What I dig most, perhaps, about existentialism (and marxism as I understand it) is the assertion that human beings are subjects, not objects. We are not like stones, with no possibilities: absent wicked socialization and degradation of personalities to become slaves to Power (SEE ALSO Fight the ...), and even then, when we're lucky, we can develop the autonomy to become the subjects, the actioners in History.
Of course, in America, most are bought off into being stones, seeing the murders of worlds of subjects with eyes of stone.
This is connection between the two posts. Michael the waiter from post one: he could have been a stone, and said, "We don't deliver." He chose to be a subject in History, and do something practical to Make the World a Better Place.
[This is the second of two posts for 5 May. Suggest read below first, but don't let Moi trample on anyone's right to ketchup in the wrong way.)
1813 - Danish philosopher/theologian (the first existentialist?) Soren Kierkegaard born.
1818 - Karl Marx born.
1972 - Legendary blind blues guitarist Rev. Gary Davis dies.
What I dig most, perhaps, about existentialism (and marxism as I understand it) is the assertion that human beings are subjects, not objects. We are not like stones, with no possibilities: absent wicked socialization and degradation of personalities to become slaves to Power (SEE ALSO Fight the ...), and even then, when we're lucky, we can develop the autonomy to become the subjects, the actioners in History.
Of course, in America, most are bought off into being stones, seeing the murders of worlds of subjects with eyes of stone.
This is connection between the two posts. Michael the waiter from post one: he could have been a stone, and said, "We don't deliver." He chose to be a subject in History, and do something practical to Make the World a Better Place.
posted by HH at 7:25 PM
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