Concision is good:
Worthwhile reads from the past week:
Keeping it short again this week:
I don’t spend a lot of time chatting about anti-utilitarianism with my neighbours, though on reflection, now I’ve read about it, perhaps I’ve been ‘critiquing the hegemony of the epistemological postulates of economics’ in my daily life all these years without realising it; I call it ‘building a house and planting a garden while having fun with friends’.
That civilisations fall, sooner or later, is as much a law of history as gravity is a law of physics. What remains after the fall is a wild mixture of cultural debris, confused and angry people whose certainties have betrayed them, and those forces which were always there, deeper than the foundations of the city walls: the desire to survive and the desire for meaning.
– The Dark Mountain Project Manifesto
I didn’t do nearly as much reading this week as most – busy with work, in bed early a few nights because I needed the sleep and, most significantly perhaps, I’m feeling burned out on politics. I’m presently much more interested in science and – it being May – in planting. Here are a few things on those themes and other ones:
Several weeks ago it was “Music Sunday” at church. In lieu of a sermon the choir performed Mozart’s Requiem. It was amazing. Their performance of it isn’t up on YouTube yet so here’s one that is:
(Lyrics and English translation of Requiem here.)
