Status Updates From Prometheus and Atlas

"Strauss observes that modern technology is forcing the material conditions of a World Society upon us, without a common world culture as its basis. It is the unification of mankind on the basis of the lowest common denominator. This leads to 'lonely crowds' suffering from a pervasive sense of alienation and anomie."

"The mythos of a people is a primeval reality on which they unconsciously pattern their social organization, and which they embody in their ritual and moral actions. This implicate order is structured in terms of archetypal images, whose iterations in the phenomena of the mundane world are ectypal."

“We should hear in this German term gestellt the verb stellen—which means to set in place, and set upon, in the sense of challenging. In other words, truth as representation is not mere correspondence; it is rather a taking to be true, a setting-upon and securing that does violence to what is objectified.”

Very Interesting