O.G. Rose | Error as Grace, Capable and Virtuous Letting-Be, Beauty, and Efficiency for Surprise by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
For "The Net (111)" which inspired this piece, please see:
youtube.com/watch?v=wymxVlhvV8I&list=PL-lnxUzWjRmhsU-In3UjLE5luiNbnS_5j&index=2&t=4300s
--------
...There is an intricate and unique relationship between virtue, surprise, encounter, capacity, showing, and beauty. There is a strange tension where it seems impossible to seek a good for its own sake, but if you seek a capacity that you never know when you will use it or how, then you must be willing to develop a good that you never know for sure you will use—thus you have to be willing to do it for its own sake. Also, how can you be sure that a person is being virtuous for the right reasons and not to get ahead of others? By making the test the surprise: how does the person act when he or she doesn’t know what is going to happen? Is the person “self-forgetful” (a theme in O.G. Rose) because the individual has a capacity to handle the surprise? Also, what is the difference between “pretty” and “beauty?” Well, there is something about beauty that is a strike and able to “rise to an occasion” that is not predicted or expected ahead of time, which is to say it does not fit within preset complexes. Indeed, to be able to rise to a surprise and thrive is memorable and beautiful, and yet it is such precisely because it was not planned, which means beauty requires of us to be prepared for surprise and the encounter. How is that possible? By sacrifice and by gaining capacity we never know if we will use—capacity we must be willing to get “for its own sake.” And if beauty and virtue are connected, then this act of beauty is a testament to beauty....
Substack:
ogrose.substack.com/p/error-as-grace-capable-and-virtuous
Medium:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/error-as-grace-capable-and-virtuous-letting-be-beauty-and-efficiency-for-surprise-d9029f8a6c1e
Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust
For "The Net (111)" which inspired this piece, please see:
youtube.com/watch?v=wymxVlhvV8I&list=PL-lnxUzWjRmhsU-In3UjLE5luiNbnS_5j&index=2&t=4300s
--------
...There is an intricate and unique relationship between virtue, surprise, encounter, capacity, showing, and beauty. There is a strange tension where it seems impossible to seek a good for its own sake, but if you seek a capacity that you never know when you will use it or how, then you must be willing to develop a good that you never know for sure you will use—thus you have to be willing to do it for its own sake. Also, how can you be sure that a person is being virtuous for the right reasons and not to get ahead of others? By making the test the surprise: how does the person act when he or she doesn’t know what is going to happen? Is the person “self-forgetful” (a theme in O.G. Rose) because the individual has a capacity to handle the surprise? Also, what is the difference between “pretty” and “beauty?” Well, there is something about beauty that is a strike and able to “rise to an occasion” that is not predicted or expected ahead of time, which is to say it does not fit within preset complexes. Indeed, to be able to rise to a surprise and thrive is memorable and beautiful, and yet it is such precisely because it was not planned, which means beauty requires of us to be prepared for surprise and the encounter. How is that possible? By sacrifice and by gaining capacity we never know if we will use—capacity we must be willing to get “for its own sake.” And if beauty and virtue are connected, then this act of beauty is a testament to beauty....
Substack:
ogrose.substack.com/p/error-as-grace-capable-and-virtuous
Medium:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/error-as-grace-capable-and-virtuous-letting-be-beauty-and-efficiency-for-surprise-d9029f8a6c1e
Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust
