763
demolished Utopias
5
, from privileged bubble to bubble, the last remaining members
of our tribes, and therein rekindle a universal freedom that involves both hominin
and homily; donkeys and a sputtering candle of the divine. Our last chance to illuminate that cave into which Plato once placed this ideal of humanity. It died with
him. But we have no more excuses: the power, vested in us to re-ignite that long-ago
dream, exists, both at the individual and population levels. It is a biological truth as
much as a spiritual injunction (Fig. 85.1).
5 See History And Utopia, by E. M. Cioran, Translated From the French by Richard Howard,
Seaver Books, New York, NY, 1987.
Fig. 85.1 Paulus Potter’s “De Jonge Steier,” 1647, detail, from the reproduction at the Jan Van
Goyen House in the Hague. (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
85.3 Unless
demolished Utopias
5
, from privileged bubble to bubble, the last remaining members
of our tribes, and therein rekindle a universal freedom that involves both hominin
and homily; donkeys and a sputtering candle of the divine. Our last chance to illuminate that cave into which Plato once placed this ideal of humanity. It died with
him. But we have no more excuses: the power, vested in us to re-ignite that long-ago
dream, exists, both at the individual and population levels. It is a biological truth as
much as a spiritual injunction (Fig. 85.1).
5 See History And Utopia, by E. M. Cioran, Translated From the French by Richard Howard,
Seaver Books, New York, NY, 1987.
Fig. 85.1 Paulus Potter’s “De Jonge Steier,” 1647, detail, from the reproduction at the Jan Van
Goyen House in the Hague. (Photo © M.C.Tobias)
85.3 Unless