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We meditated in yesterday’s DM on challenging “large-scale social lies” (Becker’s words) through naming them, which is journalism’s task. And indeed, a task for all of us. But another way to confront large-scale lies is through satire. As America is becoming a laughing stock in the world today—as well as a source of fear—Europe is […]
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We have been meditating on Leonard Cohen’s and then Ernest Becker’s understandings of holiness or saintliness. Why? Because evil is so present in our news every day that we have to entertain its opposite, that is, news of the holy. We hear daily of the “Epstein files” and how he and other uber-rich and uber-powerful […]
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Ernest Becker sees religion today as failing to open up our perception based on “celebrating God’s creation.” He praises indigenous religions for doing exactly that. Archaic cosmic rituals humanized the heavens and spiritualized the earth and so melted sky and earth together in an inextricable unity.* The Cosmic Mass fulfills this powerful need. Becker explains […]
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We concluded a three-part meditation on the meaning of saintliness from Leonard Cohen in yesterday’s DM with his definition that a saint is “a balancing monster of love.” How does this fit with your versions of saintliness? Does it trigger some open-heartedness in yourself? Does it work for yourself as a saint? And for other […]
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We continue our exegesis of Leonard Cohen’s observations on saintliness. The saint is grounded and earthy and following the contours of the earth—not angel-like and ethereal and airy. He/she is far from flying with the angels. Instead, she traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.* The earth’s landscape […]
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