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65) Lack,
reality, mysticism, technology, morality, principles
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Lack, reality, mysticism,
technology, morality, principles
An American moral philosopher is
said to have answered the question of how he can express himself about
morality, given that he lives so immorally: "Have you ever seen a
signpost that also goes in the direction in which it points?"
It seems appropriate to me at
this point to mention that morals are the rules that are imposed on us by
society and principles are the ones that everyone establishes for oneself.
There are a thousand rules and
laws in New York starting with rules in the elevator, house, park, traffic,
office and so on, everything is properly regulated. Our lives would probably
no longer work if we kept them all. But when humans grow older, these can
perhaps be converted into advices. In these big cities, we have become
masters of avoiding these obstacles like in slalom.
In rural areas, such as
Mississippi and Missouri, on the other hand, where, if at all, only small
towns exist, many people live in hermit yards and only step on each other's
feet in the pubs. Exactly where you could actually save yourself a bunch of
rules and laws because you wouldn't bother anyone anyway, people are even
more religious and moralistic. As if in rural areas, in loneliness, a kind of lack
of rules and morality were felt. The only question is why people swap
something that benefits them, but whose function they do not always
understand, with something else that does not benefit them and what they do
not understand.
Well, the same seems to apply to
mysticism. For example, the 19th century brought about great technical
innovations as a result of the Enlightenment, Mary Shelley wrote
"Frankenstein (published in 1818)" and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote
"Mr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (published in 1886)", which are called
"Gothic Novels”.
And today? At a time when “going
to the toilet” is already automated and mechanized in which life without
technology seems completely impossible, esoteric and its literature
are becoming increasingly popular. Most supporters of this fashion probably
don't even know where this word comes from or what it means. It is derived
from ancient Greek and was used, for example, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in
his "Hamburgische Dramaturgie" for people who were informed about
the events of the theatre world, the others were exoteric or outsiders.
Very often esoteric also has a
political face. The last, nationalistic waves run through Europe, with
shamans dancing around the "Holy Royal Crown" exhibited there in
2012 in the Hungarian Parliament.
A rural area with many hermit
farms and a village with a church, a pub and mainly older residents, because
the younger ones have almost all migrated to the city. There is a lot of talk
about youth, Jews, gypsies, immigrants, city dwellers and so on. Every new
arriver, every new sound, even new animals are viewed with suspicion but also
with curiosity. In a closed society there is inevitably a lack of variety.
The alarm clock rings, the light
in the bathroom switches on automatically as soon as someone enters while the
coffee machine and toaster are performing their work. All we have to do is
wash and dress ourselves. We take the elevator to the garage, the gate opens
with the remote control, the GPS shows us the way to avoid traffic jams, roadwork
or other obstacles. The door to the office opens when the admission ticket
contacts the laser reader. The switched on computer informs about the
upcoming work. How good is it to read an esoteric book in the evening!
Amsterdam, the European symbol
for drug tourism, within this city the red district with its coffee shops
where hashish is legally sold. The majority of the guests are foreigners who
drink a lemonade with a satisfied smile after smoking a few hashish
cigarettes.
Scandinavian tourists in, for
example, Estonia. Sometimes drunk to the point of fainting. Actually, they
don't see much of their target country because the travel and drink costs are
still lower than an evening in a Swedish pub.
Al Capone, the legendary head of
the mafia in the U.S.A., got rich because he benefited from alcohol being prohibited
in the U.S. in the 1930s.
A visitor to Morocco has brought
a bottle of whisky or brandy to his host and knows that the Moroccan will now
be unusable for a few hours because he will empty the bottle down to the last
drop.
It's not just today's press that
deals with ecclesiastical institutions in which minors have been and are
likely to be sexually abused, with the perpetrators not being handed over to
secular jurisdiction. Classical writings also tell of older priests falling
in love with younger members of the group of children entrusted to him or
her. A puritan association inevitably gives birth to perversions.
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Sonntag, 2. August 2020
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