quiet desperation?

aggressive desperation?

Press and State

as "the Church" can be too friendly with the State,
so can the Press
though one should speak for eternity
and the other for the times

autonomously

autophilia -- love of one's self
autophilia -- fear of one's self
autology -- knowledge of one's self
autosophy -- wisdom of one's self

God help us?

even if God and all his angels are
we humans are little- or nonetheless in a big, seemingly terrible, mess

lectures at Harvard sub specie scientiae, sub specie academiae

(another) lecture* at Harvard by a visiting professor merely intellectually occupied
with little discernible personal involvement

*purely for the mind. organized. clear. referenced. scientific. near lifeless.
overly well-mannered. compromising.
a lecture that offers/changes a few ideas, at most
in the tradition of petty erudition. safe statements of a boy-man

contact high?

and contact low

Nietzsche and the tunnel

The darkness at the end of the tunnel