"It costs community. The person who moves through traditions without being captured by any of them does not fully belong to any of them. The academy did not credential me. The church did not ordain me. The party did not endorse me. The institution did not promote me. These are not complaints — they are the structural consequence of the posture. You cannot be fully inside an institution and fully willing to question its foundations at the same time. The institution knows this. The excommunication of Spinoza was not an accident."
"The itinerant posture is a third response. You cannot get outside your situation. You are inside it, and it shaped you before you could question it. But you can move within it. You can bring full attention to the specific place you are standing, find what is real there, and then — and this is the move — keep walking. Not to escape thrownness. To inhabit it honestly. To be genuinely inside each encounter rather than hovering at a safe remove from all of them."
What a poignant and beautifully written statement. You have inspired me.
This stanace reminds Grigory Skovoroda, 18th century Ukrainian wandering poet, educator and philosopher, and his famous epitaph "The world was up to catch me but failed"
To Mike and to Celia -- I'll add another brief prospective - as I very early uncovered a "truth" from Nikola Tesla - that could benefit man-kind with all of the clean, "electronically developed" electricity the world would ever need - which has been perfected over the last 63+ years of my life.
But although the technology has been in successful use as the resonating radio receiver circuit for the last 125+ years - the world has been taught that what the circuit has been doing for that 125+ years - is impossible.
So rather than bein the wanderer - I have spent my life - now 81 years long and going strong - to change that "thought position" -- because everything we see, touch, small, or feel - is a perception manufactured for "us", by "us" as an individual -- and am teaching others to continue in case I am not able to finish the job.
In other words -- some people, like myself experience the utter joy of finding "what they must do with their life".
I see the wanderer idea. Let me give you a brief perspective of how it see it.
I have loved art and craft all my life. But I was "college prep" so it was calculus and trig and philosophy. Not art.
As an adult I started trying many forms. I found some I resonated with better but they never became "the thing" I did.
I am over 50 years into this. I finally call myself a dabbler. And the losses or perspective changes are real. But the joy of doing it and learning outweighs it.
Throwness, absolutely. One has agency within parameters, and much baggage to unpack. Walking, always walking, yes I am. Besides being a philosopher you are a teacher, you explain me to myself, with philosophical annotation. I imagine I'm not the only one who feels this way.
"It costs community. The person who moves through traditions without being captured by any of them does not fully belong to any of them. The academy did not credential me. The church did not ordain me. The party did not endorse me. The institution did not promote me. These are not complaints — they are the structural consequence of the posture. You cannot be fully inside an institution and fully willing to question its foundations at the same time. The institution knows this. The excommunication of Spinoza was not an accident."
Welcome to the meta-community! ;)
I'm not sure accepting membership in said community would be consistent with the itinerant posture.
Thank you.
"The itinerant posture is a third response. You cannot get outside your situation. You are inside it, and it shaped you before you could question it. But you can move within it. You can bring full attention to the specific place you are standing, find what is real there, and then — and this is the move — keep walking. Not to escape thrownness. To inhabit it honestly. To be genuinely inside each encounter rather than hovering at a safe remove from all of them."
What a poignant and beautifully written statement. You have inspired me.
Thank you😊♥️🙏🏻♥️
This stanace reminds Grigory Skovoroda, 18th century Ukrainian wandering poet, educator and philosopher, and his famous epitaph "The world was up to catch me but failed"
To Mike and to Celia -- I'll add another brief prospective - as I very early uncovered a "truth" from Nikola Tesla - that could benefit man-kind with all of the clean, "electronically developed" electricity the world would ever need - which has been perfected over the last 63+ years of my life.
But although the technology has been in successful use as the resonating radio receiver circuit for the last 125+ years - the world has been taught that what the circuit has been doing for that 125+ years - is impossible.
So rather than bein the wanderer - I have spent my life - now 81 years long and going strong - to change that "thought position" -- because everything we see, touch, small, or feel - is a perception manufactured for "us", by "us" as an individual -- and am teaching others to continue in case I am not able to finish the job.
In other words -- some people, like myself experience the utter joy of finding "what they must do with their life".
I see the wanderer idea. Let me give you a brief perspective of how it see it.
I have loved art and craft all my life. But I was "college prep" so it was calculus and trig and philosophy. Not art.
As an adult I started trying many forms. I found some I resonated with better but they never became "the thing" I did.
I am over 50 years into this. I finally call myself a dabbler. And the losses or perspective changes are real. But the joy of doing it and learning outweighs it.
Throwness, absolutely. One has agency within parameters, and much baggage to unpack. Walking, always walking, yes I am. Besides being a philosopher you are a teacher, you explain me to myself, with philosophical annotation. I imagine I'm not the only one who feels this way.