O.G. Rose | Belonging Again (Part II.1: An Address) by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
If we’re not going to seclude ourselves or engage in some exodus, we must find a way to achieve “rest” and “belonging” around others who are very different from us, and this is not “natural,” suggesting we will have to become “super-natural” or something—somehow. Belonging Again (Part I) explored possibilities like science, psychoanalysis, college, activism, religion, etc., and though I by no means want to claim that I exhausted all possibilities and angles, I hope to have at least shown that there are no easy roads left. Without a Transcendent, “God,” or X, it would seem our best hope for “belonging again” is isolationist, hence why we cannot readily claim some nations are “irrational” to have atomized so much. Furthermore, there is wisdom in a Buddhist meditation and practice through which we transcend the question of “belonging” entirely, as there is wisdom in a “benedict option” that seeks limited interaction with society (though what constitutes “too limited” or “overly-limited” might be difficult to determine). However, Part I suggested this could be to give up on Pluralistic, Modern Society, which ultimately might be what we must do, though this book explores ways we might continue pluralistically and forgo atomization. Basically, the question is if it might be possible for the majority to become “Nietzschean Children” and/or “Absolute Knowers” of Hegel through the creation of a socioeconomic system or “field” that increases the probability Children emerge. If Part II fails, we might concede to something more isolationist, and even if we succeed, our address might only last so long as we can prove Christlike, able to lay down our lives, and forgive...
For more, check:
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Medium:
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For a conversation about the book with Cadell Last:
youtube.com/watch?v=mjCWhokozfY
Also, "O.G. Rose Conversation, Episode #165":
youtube.com/watch?v=X1bGrvQtXUg&t=9s
For more by O.G. Rose:
og-rose.com
If we’re not going to seclude ourselves or engage in some exodus, we must find a way to achieve “rest” and “belonging” around others who are very different from us, and this is not “natural,” suggesting we will have to become “super-natural” or something—somehow. Belonging Again (Part I) explored possibilities like science, psychoanalysis, college, activism, religion, etc., and though I by no means want to claim that I exhausted all possibilities and angles, I hope to have at least shown that there are no easy roads left. Without a Transcendent, “God,” or X, it would seem our best hope for “belonging again” is isolationist, hence why we cannot readily claim some nations are “irrational” to have atomized so much. Furthermore, there is wisdom in a Buddhist meditation and practice through which we transcend the question of “belonging” entirely, as there is wisdom in a “benedict option” that seeks limited interaction with society (though what constitutes “too limited” or “overly-limited” might be difficult to determine). However, Part I suggested this could be to give up on Pluralistic, Modern Society, which ultimately might be what we must do, though this book explores ways we might continue pluralistically and forgo atomization. Basically, the question is if it might be possible for the majority to become “Nietzschean Children” and/or “Absolute Knowers” of Hegel through the creation of a socioeconomic system or “field” that increases the probability Children emerge. If Part II fails, we might concede to something more isolationist, and even if we succeed, our address might only last so long as we can prove Christlike, able to lay down our lives, and forgive...
For more, check:
ogrose.substack.com/p/belonging-again-an-address
Medium:
medium.com/@o-g-rose-writing/belonging-again-an-address-2c7010b23ee2
Purchase your copy today on Amazon!
amazon.com/Belonging-Again-Address-Part-II-1-ebook/dp/B0D1PN8VG4?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TDu0AEH_MuaOeVb_WsUD__drzy5tAS_iK7c0g77nbkmh87PyPQ2yk_nK1xqGj8ysGln46ftAIcFanY_7zh2e4AWiK17v1hLKDePtV_EYFuf2kk9S5x9Yy-ATV8imtCHgiNP3ptmb9n2THWicuBOdHw.90qebqqoe-SJz06tDF7_JwWMdf_vK5-4K5g5b_uPW_I&dib_tag=AUTHOR
For a conversation about the book with Cadell Last:
youtube.com/watch?v=mjCWhokozfY
Also, "O.G. Rose Conversation, Episode #165":
youtube.com/watch?v=X1bGrvQtXUg&t=9s
For more by O.G. Rose:
og-rose.com
