GLORY OF FALL

                             

WRONG WAY

 We are here to spiritualize the material but instead we materialize the spiritual.

 

ARISTOTLE

British Museum

Night Thoughts

http://www.britishmuseum.org/collectionimages/AN00016/AN00016359_001_l.jpg

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle

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Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 20, (E 42)

"till the body was left a helpless trunk. this
after grinning & kissing it with seeming fondness they devourd
too; and here & there I saw one savourily picking the flesh off
of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoyd us both we went
into the mill, & I in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotles Analytics.
  So the Angel said: thy phantasy has imposed upon me & thou
oughtest to be ashamed.
  I answerd: we impose on one another, & it is but lost time
to converse with you whose works are only Analytics. 
                 Opposition is true Friendship." 

ON HOMERS POETRY (E 269)

 "As Unity is the cloke of folly so Goodness is the cloke of
knavery  Those who will have Unity exclusively in Homer come out
with a Moral like a sting in the tail: Aristotle says Characters
are either Good or Bad: now Goodness or Badness has nothing to do
with Character. an Apple tree a Pear tree a Horse a Lion, are
Characters but a Good Apple tree or a Bad, is an Apple tree
still: a Horse is not more a Lion for being a Bad Horse. that is
its Character; its Goodness or Badness is another consideration."

Annotations to Watson, (E 615)

 That mankind are in a less distinguishd situation with
regard to mind than they were in the time of Homer Socrates
Phidias. Glycon. Aristotle & let all their works witness
[the Deists]<Paine> say<s> that Christianity put a stop
to improvement & the Bishop has not shewn the contrary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidias 

DIGITAL AGE

UC Santa Barbara

Walter Isaacson

The Innovators

Page 248

"Defense Department money was not flowing freely to costly programs designed to allow collaboration among academic researchers." 

Page 249

"For the academics and researchers who were actually building the network, it had only peaceful purposes. For some of those overseeing and funding the project, especially the Pentagon and Congress, it also had a military rationale."

...

"He [Steven Cocker] never considered nuclear survival to be part of his mission. Yet when Lukasik sent around his 2011 paper, Cocker read smiled, and revised his thinking. "I was on top and you were on the bottom,so you really had no idea of what was going on and why we were doing it," Lukasik told him. To which Cocker replied with a dab of humor masking a dollop of wisdom, "I was on the bottom and you were on the top, so you had no idea of what was going on or what we were doing."

 Page 251

"Janet Abbate noted ... the group that designed and built ARPA's networks was dominated by academic scientists, who incorporated their own values of collegiality, decentralization of authority, and open exchange of information into the system." These  academic researchers of the late 1960's, many of whom associated with the antiwar counterculture, created a system that resisted centralized command. It would route around any damage from a nuclear attack but also around any attempt to impose control."

Page 260

"The Internet was built partly by the government and partly by private firms, but mostly it was the creation of a loosely knit cohort of academics and hackers who worked as peers and freely shared their creative ideas. The result of such peer sharing was a network that facilitated peer sharing. This was not mere happenstance. The Internet was built with the belief that that power should be distributed rather than centralized and that any authoritarian diktats should be circumvented."

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 "I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans

I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create

William Blake"