Garrett Beebe

Journeyman. Student of cognition and lover of wisdom.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

If recent events have made clearer to you that we're in a chaotic, transitional epoch, and you want to deeply understand why, at the level of both thought and evolution, where we're headed, and by what principles, consider taking up the only sophisticated modern treatment:

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

If one truly wants to respond to Nostalgia, and one should want to if they really care about moving forward, they may best genuinely meet Odysseus.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Either of these will truly arrive after my time, our time, but will constitute the world of my children, my friends' children, our shared and beloved generations. May we come together on these terms, and may we separate on these terms. May we meet this time well.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Despite the darkness, and in part because of it, I do believe this radical time we're in has a power, some underway at the Overton, to bring about the stabilization of a millennium of good beyond what we have ever together known or become. There is just so much at hand.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

But this is met, incoincidentally, against a convergence of factors toward one of the most threatening world-orders possible, with technological asymmetries enough to entrench that fate into a long-lasting, or self-destructive, dystopian desperation the likes we have never seen.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Sapience is not technocratic-aristocratic-individuate for any other reason than the directness of its knowledge.

And there is the one, are the ones, who is instead, are instead, radiant and overgiving in its overfullness, their overfullness.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

"There is a delicate empiricism (zarte empirie) that makes itself utterly identical with the object, thereby becoming true theory. But this enhancement of our mental powers belongs to a highly evolved age."

Goethe: Scientific Studies (Douglas Miller, Princeton, p. 307)

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Science could be a wisdom tradition if the view from nowhere (the view from everything, everywhere, all at once) were not its soteriological end.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Instead, inquiries into what you (we) become and afford becoming when you are in a continuity of contact with reality. Reciprocity in the en-counter. This is what is of interest, even duty, to science and scientists at their best.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Science could be a wisdom tradition if the view from nowhere (the view from everything, everywhere, all at once) were not its soteriological end.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

As well, if the phenomenal trace for what is real, the reconciliation of intelligibility with its source, were not 'that which resists/defies/objects to you.'

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Ask what it means for an industry leader to "hire a philosopher."

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

@glyphikon What do you genuinely think was missed?

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@DrScotMSullivan Unified?

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@DrScotMSullivan https://t.co/9GvsIjVjcz

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

@socraticexp They increasingly do not expect it, though that does not make it less valuable or appreciable.

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[Outis @Outisemoi]

@vvo1991 @DPFR06 Pero que lo segregado no muera en el olvido, sino que repose en temporal custodia. Lo residual aguarda ser también coordinado. Tras mirar al Sol, vuelve el sabio a la cueva, no a perder luz, sino a cuajarla en las sombras.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Sapience is the transfiguring measure and consummating discernment of Culture. It is borne of Culture as flower from seed by existential and transpersonal process, emanated by the reorienting ontonormative call and claim of the Real. It stands apart yet stands as part of Meaning.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

As is the way, young seekers find error in Culture. They see rightly that Culture is the inside-out of the fully human, that it entombs people in mimesis, simulacra, partiality. But, as though through an ambiguous/reversible figure, we can also see it for the eikonic womb it is.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Between Aion and Chronos, Kairos.

"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

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[Laeth @laethcore]

knowing how to be in the right place at the right time is better than omnipresence.

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

@rawatthekiid will enjoy this in relation to the theme on your last tweet

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

Culture, "cultural production," is contingent on a more primordial, transjective, porous connectedness to our already Meaningful world. Culture is how we cacoon around Meaning.

Malcolm Guite is right. We need not a re-enchantment of the world, but 'undisenchantment.'

[Garrett Beebe @givingdepth]

It is only their Metaxy that can bring civilizations into communion with the Good. But it is precisely their combined corruption - their dualistic adversity and-or dark bedfellowship - that leads to our most uniquely human self-deceptive self-destructiveness.