Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Welcome: let's get started boys and girls!

As I wrote in a recent paper of mine on Faust, the construction of one's worldview inherently derives from where he or she believes that "meaning" ultimately has its source.

We see Faust struggling with the fact that the waves before him do not obey a logical set of rules oriented toward ameliorating human ills; instead they waste energy, performing the same cycle over the course of many repetitions. Any reclamation of this meaning necessarily involves harnessing this energy, both figuratively (through logic) and literally (through science and empiricism).

Once a meaning has been salvaged, though, it is an internal meaning, which is perhaps the closest man can now come to the fundamentally ordered "chain of creation" that existed before. Knowledge of the world has become synonymous with knowledge of the “Self” , and that self must define its world through a series of logical propositions.
What little (if anything) that can be known about the exterior world through such a worldview is also, therefore, clouded by an insurmountable barrier, a dense organizational fabric, formed during childhood, which refuses to rot away.

This meshwork is as arduous to cross through as the impenetrable, interlocking, and perfect, union of the spheres at one time appeared. In doing so, however, the weight of God is hefted in one hand, while, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, the other hand holds the essence of syllables used to capture sound from the noise of the air.

So, there you have it. Together with you (yes YOU), I hope to cross through this crosshatched facade of reality with absolutely no regard for its former arrangement; while you're here, you're Faust too. There's another world just on the other side of this door- let's go!

3 comments:

  1. yay for adventure!!! :D can't wait to jump through to the other side of all the doors!

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  2. Does the door open "in" or "out"?

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  3. @ youngfamilyof4:

    It opens *to the side* like on Star Trek.

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