Merry!?-go-Round (two)
Merry Go Round, Tel Aviv, 1980. Lev Borodulin.
June 28, 2022
Merry!?-go-Round (two)……..
peace, with a small p.
peace, which, sooner or later, like all things in this, our world of opposites, our dialectical realm, will turn into its opposite or a variation of itself.
"I have always heard it said that peace brings riches; riches bring pride; pride brings anger; anger brings war; war brings poverty; poverty brings humanity; humanity brings peace; peace, as I have said, brings riches, and so the world's affairs go round."
Luigi da Porto from Lettere Storiche 1509.
From a group of letters written from 1509 to around 1530.
In all ages it seems there have been those nudging humanity as to the true nature of this world and the potential within ourselves for something fundamentally new.
The above passage seems to tie in nicely with the start of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. (1)
Is there anything new under the sun!
Also, seems like it may have been this guy who wrote the story on which Shakespeare based Romeo and Juliet
(fun fact - kind of).
(1) Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 verses 2 to 10.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher,
vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour
which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh:
but the earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down,
and hasteth to his place where he arose.
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north;
it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full;
unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it:
the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;
and that which is done is that which shall be done:
and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?
it hath been already of old time, which was before us.