autobiology
I love Carlyle -- one of the last great Conservative voices, before the tradition evaporated.
He once remarked, of the Civil War, that the Americans were slaughtering each other by the thousands because half of them believed in hiring their slaves for life and the other half believed in hiring them by the hour.
Kind of sums up Carlyle, strengths and weaknesses both, for me. He was a little too fond of a good epigram.
random comment from a random lurker - but have you seen this yet? it's very beautiful. maybe i'm wrong, but it seems like something you might enjoy. on some level, it recalls your one post with the man kissing the plant out his window.
Hi, Im from Melbourne Australia.
Please check out these related essays on the politics & culture of Happiness.
1. www.dabase.net/restsacr.htm
2. www.dabase.net/dualsens.htm
3. www.coteda.com
"The pursuit of happiness"
What an interesting term!
There is nothing to 'pursue' really.
It's all here within me.
Heaven is no where.
Heaven is now here.
I feel sooooo at peace, so joyful and yes, so blessed, that I don't quite understand anymore when people talk about 'pursuing' happiness.
Weird synchronicity... I can't believe I didn't see this post before, considering how important Carlyle and Kierkegaard both were to forming the character of my own site (Time's Person of the Year.)
Kierkegaard had the easy out, which was to simply defer to faith. Carlyle didn't have that out, and he ended up far more tortured. And so it goes.
"unblinkered" -- what a great, great word.
and I love your post and kundun's comment.
I'm going to put up a reminder by my bathroom mirror. good teeth brushing reading. :-)
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