Ernst Bloch - Spiraling Human Hope

[@Nilnaberius6727]

Hope does not escape pandoras box :(

[@MrCJCala]

As Epimetheus knew, Elpis (Hope) does not leave Pandora's Box. Like a Buddhist, it is beyond binaries in terms of interpretation. ^_^

[@YellowCakeRadio]

Man I need to read this. So much insight.

[@76Terrell]

Well said! I'll need to relisten to better understand it all, but I wonder about the historical accuracy of cyclic time being experienced as a closed loop. David Abram in 'The Spell of the Sensuous' talks about his ethnographic fieldwork with shamans throughout asia and describes their experience of time being like layers of rhythms. From the passing of days inside cycles of months, years, etc., as not just strict repetitions of sameness, but like musical motifs as vehicles for the eternal return of melodic differences, as a form of ecological process ontology. He further describes cyclic time phenomenologically, using the horizon which forms a circle around the perceiver as the threshold marking where the future is withheld from the present (as well as the horizon of objects which require us to proceed to move around the object to gain other perspectives of it); and the past can be perceived as the burried ground that has sedimented over time (and the inside of objects like rings in a tree). While I'm a sucker for the romantic optimism in this, I especially love the analogy of hope opening time to new movements like cutting a loop to release it into a growing spiral, I've been wondering about how visualizing time as linear lines might be reductive in ways that can be disempowering. Like functioning as a reductive assimilation of divergent historical processes into totalizing 1 or 2 dimensional metanarratives. Going off of the musical analogy, maybe hope can be like a change of the chord progression, moving the verse into a bridge to take the tune in a new direction. Thanks for the food for thought!

[@MrCJCala]

As Robert Anton Wilson stated: "...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable." Glad you enjoyed and thanks so much for watching! ^_^

[@hanskung3278]

You will never understand Bloch.

[@analogiaentis]

Could you do one on Christianity and Atheism?

[@Nilnaberius6727]

I liked the seraphim rose one that touches on both