Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Painting—‘Doing a Good Job’, 6 1/2 “x 4 1/2”, Acrylic, paper, pencil, tape, 2024. Photo by author.

We don’t have the resources to understand the corruption, it’s too much for us to comprehend.

The question isn’t, why do people walk dogs? People walk dogs because they have dogs! The question is, why do people have dogs?

If you say to someone, “I’m sorry”, what you’ve said is very different from saying to someone, “forgive me.” Can you notice the difference?

Hegel’s philosophy of history contains this bombshell: the philosophy of history is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Precision in language, yes of course, but I suspect that Wittgenstein, a mathematician, found the language he explored to be liquid, porous, up to the task of minor description but not able to rise from a bed of nails to express the inexpressible.

What next? Sustainable Capitalism in which the system reforms itself in the face of the realities it’s previously presented.

Da Da Da Dum.