A Reminder
“The role of the intellectual is not to tell others what they have to do. By what right would he do so? . . . The work of an intellectual is not to shape others’ political will; it is, through the analysis that he carries out in his field, to question over and over again what is postulated as self-evident, to disturb people’s mental habits, the way they do and think things, to dissipate what is familiar and accepted, to reexamine rules and institutions and on the basis of this re-problematization (in which he carries out his specific task as an intellectual) to participate in the formation of a political will (in which he has his role as citizen to play).”[1]
I’m guessing that this is why you keep reading all my explorations. It’s not about finding answers, is it? It’s about asking the right questions. Spirituality without debate is fossilized conformity.
[1] Michael Foucault and Lawrence D. Kritzman, Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984 (Routledge, 1988), p. 265. Cited in Daniel Boyarin, Border Lines: the Partition of Judeo-Christianity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), p. 227.
“It’s not about finding answers, is it? It’s about asking the right questions. Spirituality without debate is fossilized conformity.”
To this I say Amen
“I’m guessing that this is why you keep reading all my explorations.”
And to this Skip I say thank you for your service
Indeed… it is about asking the right questions. But the “answers” must also be sought by means of the right source. (And yes, Skip, it is one reason I keep reading all your explorations.)
I love it! So when people look at me and tell me I’ve changed, I just looked back at them and say and you haven’t. Just keep believing the same old stuff and you won’t.