O.G. Rose | A Fragment on Scale (In Honor of the 2024 Parallax Class) @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
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Our identities, religions, nationalities, occupations, life choices, philosophies, political ideologies, political leaders—none of these are “given” anymore: whatever we face, we find ourselves full of questions. “Is this true? Is this best? Is this valid?” We live during what James Joyce in “The Dead” called ‘a thought-tormented age,’ which, as James K.A. Smith put it when writing on Charles Taylor, is to say that our world is a ‘contested, cross-pressured, haunted world [...] [T]raditional definitions of reality which previously provided stable [guides] for living everyday life (in courtship, marriage, child-rearing, religious faith and practice, interpersonal exchange and the like) are increasingly fluid, fragmented, and deprived of plausibility.’ Might this prove to be an opportunity though? Indeed, it might.
Belonging Again describes our sociological moment where nothing is “given” and yet we find ourselves forced to confront the inescapable reality that freedom isn’t always free. We’re able to be whoever we want to be, but this was made possible by emptying our possibilities of significance. Everything is just like everything else, and so we find ourselves like that donkey between two equal-sized piles of grain of grain: starving, unable to choose, and tempted to flee. If we’re not going to seclude ourselves or engage in some exodus though, we must find a way to achieve “rest” and “belonging” around others who are very different from us and in a world that is ever-changing. And none of this is “natural,” suggesting we will have to become “super-natural” or something—somehow. Furthermore, we will have to “scale” the conditions which make this possible, and how can that be done without slipping into oppression and totalitarianism? The challenge is great.
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CLASS 3– THE PROBLEM OF SCALE
Sunday July 21st, 11am PDT (Los Angeles), 2pm EDT (New York), 8pm CET (Paris)
Considerations: Pages 156-213 (Book 2, Chapters I, II, and III)
Gathering: We will consider if “the problem of spreading Childhood” or “elevating consciousness” might take care of itself, which is ultimately “the problem of scale,” and we will do so while considering “The Game B and Dark Renaissance Debate.” We will also describe why problem-solving has a natural advantage over problem-prevention, and why Global Pluralism is so difficult without relying on a “system” which, for good and for bad, removes “the human element.” We will also touch on topics of “the rationality of freedom relative to ethics,” how humans naturally seek spaces of limited hermeneutical possibility, why diversity tends to lead to systemization, and the work of Georffrey West on “laws of scale” which might be “accelerating us to death”…
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For more by O.G. Rose:
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Photo by Gaël Gaborel - OrbisTerrae
To purchase a copy of Belonging Again II.1:
amazon.com/stores/O.G.-Rose/author/B09QXTHGYY?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
For Parallax Course Information:
parallax-media.com/courses/belonging-again-an-address-with-og-rose-6x45n?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR05K_TyEDamli8HzMmO_RvPNL7A3lYS5rtE_26Wat-rtKvtyF-NRjagLw8_aem_BBRkltscQxxxUTGsdrVERA
To join the Network Page:
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Our identities, religions, nationalities, occupations, life choices, philosophies, political ideologies, political leaders—none of these are “given” anymore: whatever we face, we find ourselves full of questions. “Is this true? Is this best? Is this valid?” We live during what James Joyce in “The Dead” called ‘a thought-tormented age,’ which, as James K.A. Smith put it when writing on Charles Taylor, is to say that our world is a ‘contested, cross-pressured, haunted world [...] [T]raditional definitions of reality which previously provided stable [guides] for living everyday life (in courtship, marriage, child-rearing, religious faith and practice, interpersonal exchange and the like) are increasingly fluid, fragmented, and deprived of plausibility.’ Might this prove to be an opportunity though? Indeed, it might.
Belonging Again describes our sociological moment where nothing is “given” and yet we find ourselves forced to confront the inescapable reality that freedom isn’t always free. We’re able to be whoever we want to be, but this was made possible by emptying our possibilities of significance. Everything is just like everything else, and so we find ourselves like that donkey between two equal-sized piles of grain of grain: starving, unable to choose, and tempted to flee. If we’re not going to seclude ourselves or engage in some exodus though, we must find a way to achieve “rest” and “belonging” around others who are very different from us and in a world that is ever-changing. And none of this is “natural,” suggesting we will have to become “super-natural” or something—somehow. Furthermore, we will have to “scale” the conditions which make this possible, and how can that be done without slipping into oppression and totalitarianism? The challenge is great.
---------------------
CLASS 3– THE PROBLEM OF SCALE
Sunday July 21st, 11am PDT (Los Angeles), 2pm EDT (New York), 8pm CET (Paris)
Considerations: Pages 156-213 (Book 2, Chapters I, II, and III)
Gathering: We will consider if “the problem of spreading Childhood” or “elevating consciousness” might take care of itself, which is ultimately “the problem of scale,” and we will do so while considering “The Game B and Dark Renaissance Debate.” We will also describe why problem-solving has a natural advantage over problem-prevention, and why Global Pluralism is so difficult without relying on a “system” which, for good and for bad, removes “the human element.” We will also touch on topics of “the rationality of freedom relative to ethics,” how humans naturally seek spaces of limited hermeneutical possibility, why diversity tends to lead to systemization, and the work of Georffrey West on “laws of scale” which might be “accelerating us to death”…
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For more by O.G. Rose:
og-rose.com
Photo by Gaël Gaborel - OrbisTerrae
