On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think one can seriously compare Madame Blavatsky or Stefan George with Einstein or Freud. On poking about a little-Mme Blavatsky died in 1889, having founded the Theosophy Society, which seems to be one of those religions in which the smart people are better than everyone else, and you can tell they are smart because they believe in the religion. Stefan George had something along the same line. I cannot believe Benjamin would fall for the raw aura so to speak-where was the idea between 1905 and 1930, when he wrote about it?
I didn't mean that she's on their par, but that because of all of those big theoretical upheavals in the accepted order of things, parascience and pseudoscience and phrenology and all that stuff gained traction. I believe that even to this day it is generally accepted that there is more to things than meets the eye, that deep subterranean currents flow through our actions and decisions, that we cannot trust the appearances of things or what people say, but that the truth lies in undiscovered or inexplicable forces and connections, that we can only know within the degree of error, that the Uncertainty Principle permeates all facets of the world, etc. etc. etc.
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