Pitfalls of compartmentalized society
Published a fascinating essay about string theory, speculating that we don`t die and rot in the ground but continue to exist in mysterious ways. The essay, rooted in science, linked the many-worlds theory to other scientific notions about the nature of death.Later in the week the U.S. Census Bureau released a videographed interactive population map of the United States, telling us a great deal about our demographics and the changing nature of our country.
Were these stories unrelated? Seemingly. In a culture obsessed by compartmentalization and categorization it was inevitable that no connection should be made between these stories or between them and the evolving nature of our society. String theory, of course, would argue that not only are they related but in fact everything is related.
But we are seized with a frenzy to pigeonhole subjects, events, people, ideas, and studies. Our news media compartmentalize the news. That is why there is a Science Times in The New York Times. That is why there is a sports section and a business section. There are, of course, business reasons, too. Advertisers are attracted to communities of interest. But these communities exist because we live in an anti-holistic culture.
In a more sensible society, a society highly aware that there are consequences to everything we do and say, scientific ideas about the nature of death would be much more important than the latest lies of the Murdoch empire of sleaze. Dramatic changes in our demography would supersede front-page news about a jerkwater politician from a New York City suburb calling for yet another round of tax-wasting hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims. And the mysterious life of the monarch butterfly would interest us more than the bad behavior of yet another spoiled loony.
Compartmentalization, so useful to the evolution of our knowledge, has a dark side. It can impede our understanding of ourselves. I`ve been contemplating this ever since, while researching a novel, I came on the fact that the word chemistry is derived from the Arabic word al-Khemya became our word for alchemy and the idea of alchemy was relegated to the arcana pile.
Something surpassingly important was lost in this process. The Arabs, to whom we are indebted for much of our knowledge about Aristotle, the great proponent of categorization , did not distinguish between chemistry and alchemy.
Poetry By Marianne Moore - News
Madness and poetry: Joshua Mehigan reflects on the long history between them; "By Modernism, the greatest poets are like the villains on the old Batman TV show, each known for his or her own inimitable brand of eccentricity, whether it's Marianne
To be fair, there's some filler here; I've never been a fan of Marianne Moore's poetry, baseball or otherwise, and a short piece on Hideki Irabu's translator -- while gaining unintentional resonance due to the former Yankee pitcher's suicide last month
It seems notable to us that a poet of Marianne Moore`s stature should have been intrigued by baseball. But a more sophisticated, a more holistic culture would consider it likely that a sensibility attuned to elegance, attuned as baseball is to
So, Marianne Moore in her modesty claiming no more than an honest craft was commended and even admired, but HD and Dame Edith Sitwell, writing in the personae of the inspired seer, pretenders to the throne of Poetry that gives voice to divine will in
Apparent inattention to tone, to audience (as in Marianne Moore, as in AR Ammons), itself becomes a tone, a slightly antisocial, or nerdy, focus on the recording of thought, on “seeing the smallest thing.” The poems bear the marks of a visual artist,
“An Expedient–Leonardo da Vinci's–and a ... - Marianne Moore: Poetry
For April 18, 1964, it included a head note: “(WITH THANKS TO SIR KENNETH CLARK, DR. HENRY W. NOSS, EDWARD MACCURDY, AND IRMA A. RICHTER).” Moore’s notes, added for the poem’s book appearance, cite the first three people and their work but omit anything by Richter. Richter was an expert on Da Vinci and Moore had studied her edition of Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (New York: Oxford, 1952) and quoted from it.
The first quotation in the poem, fund in lines three and four, derives from a passage on page 258:
“Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more garments as the cold increases, the cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great injustices, and they cannot vex your mind.”
The second, in lines eight and nine, is found on page 237:
“After raving in vain for some days because the grasp of the gourd was sure and firm as to forbid such plans, it saw the wind go by and commended itself to him.”
To be fair, a closer look at Richter’s book than a limited online search allows, might repay the reader with a source for the quotation in stanza two.
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