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commend it helen butler goodreads march 13 2021 posted by s r piccoli a 2 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette books philosophy february 19 2021 my new book is out and available on amazon dear readers here we go again a new book is born a few weeks ago when all the chapters were already written i just had to write the introduction to outline the purpose goals and contents of the book which at least as regards the contents was not an easy task at all since this is a book that ranges across a vast array of topics and subjects yet i was well aware that the contents are not what matters most to some extent they are just a chance and an opportunity what matters most is what certain events facts issues thoughts and feelings can teach us about ourselves life and the world around us i d say that this book is a dialogue with myself about my understanding of and relationship with life itself existential political and philosophical issues which are frequently recurrent in the book are functional to wider self knowledge and self understanding but this is not a philosophical book despite the many philosophical issues that crowd its pages nor is it a political one despite the seven subchapters devoted to the trump era and its implications in the political social cultural and economic life in the u s and elsewhere let s put it this way to me it is always like this in people s lives the idea is to always go forward to progress toward an ever better condition and it is right that it should be so but reality rarely matches the initial vision exactly and often it marches in the opposite direction contrary to popular belief in our times many never stop unlearning nor do they give up rising in the hierarchy of what is contrary to the good the beautiful the just or simply the reasonable ours are times of intellectual chaos and moral relativism if not nihilism and everything seems on the verge of falling apart as the events of the recent past in the u s and elsewhere in case it was needed have abundantly shown by the way while i was writing the introduction thousands of president donald trump s ardent supporters violently were storming the u s capitol building prompting evacuations injuries and arrests the whole story of covid 19 fits perfectly into this context to the point of becoming at least in my mind an effective metaphor of the zeitgeist which is interwoven with individual and collective pursuits aspirations and ambitions that are so very often ill conceived short sighted and based on false premises yet such an upside down world is nevertheless our one and only world and it is well worth fighting for in spite of everything in a small way and to some extent blessed are the free in spirit a journal in complicated times is my contribution to the fight like my previous book blessed are the contrarians diary of a journey through interesting times this one is a kind of diary of a journey through our time politics culture lifestyles worldviews etc and back home again where home stands for a deep sentiment of belonging to our own free and indomitable spirit which is much stronger than the spirit of our times however powerful and attractive it may be moreover in this book as in blessed are the contrarians i have selected some of the articles posted on my blog over the last few years those most suitable for this traditional mode of communication in other words blessed are the free in spirit is somehow none other than part two of blessed are the contrarians but with a couple of differences the first being that in this book the journal entries are arranged in chronological order from most recent to oldest as well as by subject matter the second is that the author is no longer exactly the same person he was when the first book came out in 2012 this for the simple reason that time never passes in vain as heraclitus said you cannot step into the same river twice the water in the river is never the same it is constantly moving so the river is never the same river twice one word on the title of the book a free spirited person can be many different things even at least apparently opposed to one another rather than harmonious or compatible because their heart is their compass and heart has no boundaries or rules imposed from outside when they are religious they tend to focus on the innermost teachings and truths of their religious faith rather than the letter of the scriptures and therefore they re often if not always on the verge of heresy they do not dwell on the past but resist a progress built on the destruction of traditions that go back many centuries and of the systematic denial of our history and civilization they are fiercely independent but can still develop a close emotional bond with those who provide for them and look to others for protection they deeply care about their beliefs and what they feel strongly about but seem to not worry at all except the bare minimum about normal stuff like money career success etc free spirited people are the salt of the earth they are not restful persons you never relax with these people they are inspiring and thought provoking challenging and uplifting men and women at their best they are contrarians in the best sense of the word and so they are somehow a step ahead of those to whom i dedicated my previous book some time ago i stumbled upon an excellent definition of that blessed kind of person a free spirit is not bound by this that matter materialism or opinion they sing dance and flow on the wind for they are at one with it they are nothing and everything void and expanse even space and time do not confine or define them for they are pure energy itself rasheed ogunlaru with that being said please note that free spirited does not mean self referential solipsistic or selfish quite the contrary it s because they are deeply in love with life humanity poetry music dance theater writing and so many other things that free spirited people are what they are if they flow on the wind it s because they are at one with it if they are self confident it s because they have faith in life as the french say tout se tient everything fits freedom itself is not an absolute not an either or proposition but a set of relations possibilities mixed with actualities likewise freedom of spirit which is the quintessence of human nature is basically the fruit of a compromise a miracle of balance and elegance ultimately free spirited people cannot but be the result of a coincidentia oppositorum the coincidence of opposites as the most elegant of essayists and a living miracle of balance and intellectual like michel de montaigne once said one may be humble out of pride which is certainly not a good thing but what if we apply the same scheme in positive rather than in negative terms well let s say for instance that one may be cheerful ironic out of seriousness easy going out of severity naive out of sophistication and so on hence montaigne s writing en chair et en os in the flesh as well as the imperceptibly subversive turns of his sentences and the slyly ironic tone that often creeps into his essays that s what free spirited people are made up of and why they are the salt of the earth by invoking blessings on the free in spirit i m trying to express the feeling i feel for them my deep admiration and gratitude for their very special contribution to mankind and society they are my north star my source of inspiration and the reason why i am what i am i would like to think that in whatever i write there is something the free spirited writers and thinkers of the past centuries would approve of likewise i hope what i write does not displease the free spirits of our day too much now for me there s nothing left to do but wish you happy reading and look forward to hearing from you with any questions or comments that you may have blessed are the free in spirit a journal in complicated times paperback ed isbn 13 979 8702016979 publication date february 5 2021 kindle ed asin b08w2dp9rc publication date february 4 2021 posted by s r piccoli a 12 49 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette america bloggers books history italy s politics literature philosophy uk politics us politics september 26 2020 the purpose of reading there is a story on the internet and social media that talks about the purpose of reading nothing too original nor particularly brilliant at least in my opinion but quite thought provoking and in its own way insightful unfortunately though it is written in broken english perhaps it s a bad english translation of a story that was originally written in chinese or another far eastern language thus i thought it was worth being rewritten in good english so i asked an old friend of mine peter weevers who is a great storyteller perfect for the job to take over the task of doing justice to a beautiful story and here is the excellent result i ve read lots of books but most of them i ve forgotten what then is the purpose of reading them this was the question a pupil once asked his master the master didn t answer at that time after a few days however during a peaceful period when he and the young student were sitting by a river he said he was thirsty and asked the boy to bring him some water using an old dirty sieve that he found lying there on the ground the student was taken aback because he knew it wasn t a reasonable request however not wishing to displease his master he took the sieve and began to try to carry out this absurd task every time he dipped the sieve into the river to scoop up some water to take to his master after only one step towards him there was not even a drop left in the sieve he kept trying several times but as hard as he tried even running as fast as he could from the riverbank to his master the water continued to pass through the mesh of the sieve and was all lost in the process finally exhausted he sat down next to the master and said i cannot bring any water with the sieve forgive me master it s impossible and i have failed in my task no answered the old man smiling you have not failed look at the sieve now it shines it s clean like new the water filtering through its mesh has thoroughly cleaned it when you read books continued the old master you are like a sieve and what you read is like the water of the river it doesn t matter if you can t memorize all the words that flow through your mind because books with their ideas emotions feelings knowledge truths that you read on their pages will clean your mind and your spirit they will renew you and make you a better person this is also the purpose of the reading anonymous music to my ears and those of the many whose memory leaves much to be desired in any case that s exactly how it works i get confirmation of this whenever i happen to think about something important or someone i care about books i thought i had forgotten and suddenly they come to my mind along with the gist of everything they taught me showed me suggested to me and the ineffably good vibes they transmitted to me but the story also explains something that goes far beyond the books themselves even books you may have totally forgotten about are essential and may continue operating inside us all in mysterious ways french politician edouard herriot famously said that culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything what is certain is that very few students could pass their final examinations even a year or two after leaving college or university but the results in culture in largeness of being in purity of feeling in nobility of character still remain in other words culture is not so much a thing you own as a process and an attitude of mind an attitude that is rooted mainly in our literary philosophical and religious readings hence by the way the importance of both increasing our reading and understanding ability on one hand and of carefully selecting what we read on the other hand classics are always the best choice this goes without saying and it s why i think i haven t wasted a single minute of the time i ve spent reading books posted by s r piccoli a 5 28 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette books literature philosophy august 17 2019 r i p peter fonda if i hadn t read jack kerouac s on the road among many other novels set in the u s and seen peter fonda s easy rider i probably wouldn t have undertaken my pilgrimage to america in my early thirties and wouldn t have fallen in love with her i mean the real america the land of the free and the home of the brave not the country narrated by both jack and peter you know they call it heterogony of ends while consciously pursuing your particular ends you have unconsciously served wider ends or if you prefer i was like columbus who thinking he was going to china discovered a new world therefore willing or unwilling i owe them both a debt of gratitude kerouac died in 1969 the same year as woodstock and that easy rider came out maybe a coincidence maybe not and yesterday exactly 50 years later he died at the age of 79 what about the movie well since i m not particularly adept at talking about films with the minimum competency requirements it is my pleasure to give the floor to someone who knows more than i do this is how mark bannerman concluded his article on abc news august 17 2019 some 50 years on there are those that see it as a curious film a kind of period piece for others it s the story that matters a story that has crucial relevance today forget the bikes and the hippies and see it instead as an allegory of america two guys doing a questionable business deal using it to fund their search for experience and meaning only to find the deal they did took them on a road leading nowhere in so many ways it challenges everything that america rests on towards the end of the film peter fonda s character looks back on their journey and says simply we blew it asked about this just before his death the actor said the line of script was intended for all generations then added this pointed comment go look out the window and tell me we haven t blown it not my cup of tea to be honest but no hard feelings on my part may the ground be light to you peter posted by s r piccoli a 11 21 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette america arts books april 28 2019 why i won t delete my social media accounts a couple of days ago a good facebook friend of mine asked me my thoughts on a couple of interviews released by jaron lanier an american computer scientist who is considered by many to be one of the central figures in the history of immersive virtual reality lanier has now ascended to guru status in tech circles issuing warnings about a digital world he helped make in the interviews like in his latest book ten arguments for 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