最善のものの堕落は最悪である

そうなのです。わたしの仕事は、西洋文化の〔あるがままの〕事実を深い悲しみをもって受けとめようとする試みなのです…

I am the vine; you are the branches
> Though the words blood and soil have been degraded in our time by degraded men, their concrete realities pervade the archaic tradition and come down to us today even in the inflated stereotypes of patriotism and nationalism.
Terrible that #ForsaKeN #Nazi #AzovBattalion coopted #RedAndBlack for #BloodAndSoil. #YetAnotetherExample #YAE of #CorruptioOptimiPessima #COPessima. #AmReading #LewisMumford in #TransformationsOfMan to see why it irritates me so much. #TToM #人間の変成 #人間過去現在未来 #マンフォード
Transforming the powers: the continuing relevance of Walter Wink

Any attempt to transform a social system without addressing both its spirituality and its outer forms is doomed to failure.

openDemocracy

> The problems of education are merely reflections of the deepest problems of our age. They cannot be solved by... the expenditure of money ...Education which fails to clarify our central convictions.. the disorder will grow worse. Education , far from...man’s greatest resource, will then be an agent of destruction, in accordance with the principle corruptio optimi pessima...
- http://www.fearofnature.com/small-is-beautiful-economics-as-if-people-mattered-schumacher

#corruptioOptimiPessima #SmallIsBeautiful #EFSchumacher #education

Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, Schumacher — Fear of Nature

Fear of Nature