Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Downslope Tropes to You-Tope The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. Martin Heidegger

Umm! I'm Telling! And no one can be caught up in wonder without traveling to the outermost limits of the possible. But no one will ever become the friend of the possible without remaining open to dialogue with the powers that operate in the whole of human existence. But that is the comportment of the philosopher: to listen attentively to what is already sung forth, which can still be perceived in each essential happening of world. And in such comportment the philosopher enters the core of what is truly at stake in the task he has been given to do. Martin Heidegger  

Polyphonic Bullshitification No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin Williams Thanks to Maria Popova and Amanda Palmer for the performance of Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Protest

Hey, What's Going On! When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, in any place you like, at any time you like, becomes accessible as fast as you like; when you can simultaneously "experience" an assassination attempt against a king in France and a symphony concert in Tokyo; when time is nothing but speed, instantaneity, and simultaneity, and time as history has vanished from all Being of all peoples; when a boxer counts as the great man of a people; when the tallies of millions at mass meetings are a triumph; then, yes then, there still looms like a specter over all this uproar the question: what for? — where to? — and what then? Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics  

Is Everyone In? we clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other’s arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments. Wendell Berry

On To The Next Thing Micro-Demolition Of Old Grand Narratives

Blarney Bling  ...it must be sought in the margins of life, in the shadows of despair and at the edges of the unknown. If those willing to enter the darkest places and face the unknown would gather whatever threads of meaning and imagination they might find and begin to follow where they lead, new paths to unity would be revealed and old oppressions could be relieved. Michael Meade The possible ranks higher than the actual. Martin Heidegger