Rene enscribed:
> Yesterday i met an old man, who had peculiar blue eyes. It was the blue
of
> people who live a life long near the sea. Sometimes one meets an old
farmer,
> who has sthing similar. They, so to say, carry their surrounding,
nature,
> with them. Their eyes and their words - that which is called the senses
> and speech, are still nature. Not, like in all 'free individuals', the
> registrating denaturalizers of nature. A certain sharpness can be
detected
> on the faces, sthing impersonal, 'evil', but not because THEY would be
evil.
> Mostly they're conforming and easy. Conforming to ANY policy....
Are you familiar with Oswald Spengler's book "Decline of the West"? What
I've found to be a more valuable
section in the book was where he discussed the difference between
city/countryside: "The peasant is eternal man, independent of all Cultures."
The inheritance of the city-man is death and decay, but even the man of the
country, when an intellectual, must cast his eye to the city in the time of
Culture.
One global nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and decadence for
all.
James
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> Yesterday i met an old man, who had peculiar blue eyes. It was the blue
of
> people who live a life long near the sea. Sometimes one meets an old
farmer,
> who has sthing similar. They, so to say, carry their surrounding,
nature,
> with them. Their eyes and their words - that which is called the senses
> and speech, are still nature. Not, like in all 'free individuals', the
> registrating denaturalizers of nature. A certain sharpness can be
detected
> on the faces, sthing impersonal, 'evil', but not because THEY would be
evil.
> Mostly they're conforming and easy. Conforming to ANY policy....
Are you familiar with Oswald Spengler's book "Decline of the West"? What
I've found to be a more valuable
section in the book was where he discussed the difference between
city/countryside: "The peasant is eternal man, independent of all Cultures."
The inheritance of the city-man is death and decay, but even the man of the
country, when an intellectual, must cast his eye to the city in the time of
Culture.
One global nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and decadence for
all.
James
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