If I get it right the various parts of the trajectory that ends to the Reset Modernity (for the time being) is like the drawing of the political cycle: the hard effort to help set up a public around an issue.
I was reminded of the parable of the sawer. The seed falls ("the kingdom of heaven is here" What? Where is it? "you think you are included but don't be so sure" Might I not be saved? Me? the inheritant of the patrimony?), the seed is an issue around which a public forms (One of the things I enjoy in AIME is this dialogue with my tradition).
But there are so many different responses: the person who doesn't even get what goes on, the one who is enthousiastic and then just diasppears, the one who has "so many other things to do". And it seems not so many who are fruitful.
Then there is another parable and this came to my mind in relation to the phraising of the world to come, in the ending chapter of MOE.
There is this view of the Panathenaics (pg 483), then the announcement "there is no God, there is only one Earth" and in the end the closing of the book "It is that civilization that our inquiry seeks to praise in advance, in order to ward off the worst".
(What is this worst? A glorious death has been higghly apporeciated by many cultures. )
This Panathenaics procession brings to my mind the extension of the rights to be Roman citizent to the people living in the Late Roman Empire. We are all "brothers and sisters", but we now include in the brotherhood or sisterhood other beings.
There are two ways to perceive this procession with my non modern eyes.
The one comes from the parable of the Wicked Vinedressers (Matthew 21:33-46). A flat Babel. We can build by ourselves a world where we will be the masters. We will expand the participants but in this new community there is nobody towards Whom the community gives account. We abolished fear! To my eyes this is modernity to the extreem and I wonder in what sense this is a basis of negotiation with this part of humanity that happens to pray.
The other comes from the idea that the procession was ending to Athena's statue. The Panathenaic procession was the carrying of the new clothes for the statue. Suppose Gaia is on the place of Athena. And the new clothes, perhpas the new manners of thinking and practicing through which humans (and others?) present themselves in front of Gaia. (Gaia who is nether Earth not a Godess). Which will not stay for ever but may need another renewing in another procession. In accordance with AIME there is a multiple of issues of quality, of success and failure, therefore there are issues of salvation. Gaia could be another name for Heaven, this Heaven that is "inside people's hearts". The vision of Gaia as the vision of the Kingdom of Heaven? The Procession as the Church? This is the closer I can come (though one could connect Gaia with Christ or question the connection between the Trinitarian understanding of God and this vision here) to see negotiatory passings between AIME and traditions like my own. (anyway I am not a theologian but in my tradition commoners were always talking too much)
But to be honest I would expect much more AIME ending working like the first way than like the second.
I was reminded of the parable of the sawer. The seed falls ("the kingdom of heaven is here" What? Where is it? "you think you are included but don't be so sure" Might I not be saved? Me? the inheritant of the patrimony?), the seed is an issue around which a public forms (One of the things I enjoy in AIME is this dialogue with my tradition).
But there are so many different responses: the person who doesn't even get what goes on, the one who is enthousiastic and then just diasppears, the one who has "so many other things to do". And it seems not so many who are fruitful.
Then there is another parable and this came to my mind in relation to the phraising of the world to come, in the ending chapter of MOE.
There is this view of the Panathenaics (pg 483), then the announcement "there is no God, there is only one Earth" and in the end the closing of the book "It is that civilization that our inquiry seeks to praise in advance, in order to ward off the worst".
(What is this worst? A glorious death has been higghly apporeciated by many cultures. )
This Panathenaics procession brings to my mind the extension of the rights to be Roman citizent to the people living in the Late Roman Empire. We are all "brothers and sisters", but we now include in the brotherhood or sisterhood other beings.
There are two ways to perceive this procession with my non modern eyes.
The one comes from the parable of the Wicked Vinedressers (Matthew 21:33-46). A flat Babel. We can build by ourselves a world where we will be the masters. We will expand the participants but in this new community there is nobody towards Whom the community gives account. We abolished fear! To my eyes this is modernity to the extreem and I wonder in what sense this is a basis of negotiation with this part of humanity that happens to pray.
The other comes from the idea that the procession was ending to Athena's statue. The Panathenaic procession was the carrying of the new clothes for the statue. Suppose Gaia is on the place of Athena. And the new clothes, perhpas the new manners of thinking and practicing through which humans (and others?) present themselves in front of Gaia. (Gaia who is nether Earth not a Godess). Which will not stay for ever but may need another renewing in another procession. In accordance with AIME there is a multiple of issues of quality, of success and failure, therefore there are issues of salvation. Gaia could be another name for Heaven, this Heaven that is "inside people's hearts". The vision of Gaia as the vision of the Kingdom of Heaven? The Procession as the Church? This is the closer I can come (though one could connect Gaia with Christ or question the connection between the Trinitarian understanding of God and this vision here) to see negotiatory passings between AIME and traditions like my own. (anyway I am not a theologian but in my tradition commoners were always talking too much)
But to be honest I would expect much more AIME ending working like the first way than like the second.
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