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Reading Emerson feels like coming home to a landscape you’ve never visited before but the air smell smells familiar, the tree lines feel nostalgic when the cloud forms similar to how I expect clouds to form when I was younger — and the air feels fresher. But also as if I’ve been here before. Why?

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

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Perhaps BCH’s “Disappearance of Rituals” then

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I haven't read any byung chul han, do you have any recs for a first time reader?

return to ritual absolutely strikes a chord with me - we've deviated too far from where we came from

The very niche-ness of Emerson, and transcendentalism I think is particularly resonant partially due to the fact that I think we’re similar point in history. So of course part of it is me I like the writing, it resonates with me. But I also think it’s the point in time. This need for return to ritual. He describes it as: the invariable mark of wisdom, to see the miraculous in the common. 

And I think we’re so starved for this now, Byung Chul Han writes about the burnout society and the truth about the destruction of rituals. So I don’t know I just think this is coming at the right time, for myself but also for the time that we’re in