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11.07.2024 - The media & climate of threat / Life & love & being understood / J. Brodsky 1987 & poems & uniqueness etc.

dali48 and teaching & writing diary & books and cycling & photographing in Erkrath etc.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
09.12.2000

Interpretation by dali48
The media (TV, radio, newspapers, etc. - d.48) use the complex contexts of our day to stir up fear. - Devastation, war, murder, fire, epidemics (disease), corruption and accidents dominate the news and create a climate of threat that has nothing to do with the reality of most of us! ... (A. Silberman)

This love is not the great and true love that lasts a lifetime, which is what the person holding on to it craves and strives for. They are right and are happy for the moment. Eternal love for a partner does not exist (illusion). It is an hourly miracle if he is in love again - if not, I let him go. "Life itself is love, and whoever lives it truly teaches love," says Ernesto Cardenal ... 
The free and lost person gains his psychosomatic health at the price of being understood by only a few! - He has to get used to being alone ... You cannot own something living, and certainly not such a highly complex and rational being as a human being ... Coercion, oppression, routine, being bought, obedience, orders, dependence - none of this is part of love! ... 
Reasons for separation: Love has died; you have fallen in love with another person and want to be with them; the other person has had an affair that you cannot get over; you have been cheated on by your partner and cannot forgive them; the nagging and constant criticism can no longer be tolerated; you have progressed while your partner stagnates and fights against change; emotions and rationality run counter to each other; sexually you only feel frustrated. There is no more sexual desire; you feel repelled by your partner, no longer attracted. Living with them becomes torture; you can no longer talk to each other, not live next to each other; you can no longer bear the constant lies; your partner demands too much closeness and does not resonate between the poles of distance and closeness - or he wants too much distance. In any case, the balance is disturbed; your partner is constantly aggressive or depressed. You can no longer bear his constant promises; your future life goals are different. One wants constant company, the other loves peace and quiet; one has made an irrevocable decision without asking your partner whether he is doing it. One is intensely involved in his hobby, his sport or his political work, - things that are foreign to the other; your partner becomes a workaholic and has no time anymore. He only talks about his job; your partner becomes a masochist, and you cannot get on with this sexual inclination; you find out that your partner speaks badly about you to other people. Your honor is insulted and you can't forget it; your partner is getting fatter from month to month, he's getting really fat. You can't cope with this physical change; you want children, but your partner doesn't want any (1-21 reasons) ... This list could go on for many pages (i.e. there are countless reasons for separation - but what are the reasons for staying together?) ... We are looking for a relationship, we want to hold on to each other, - we don't want to know about letting go. But we cling to the well-known but wrong techniques: Make the other person dependent by sex, money and gifts, promises and status symbols ... (P. Lauster)

Thursday, February 14, 2008 

Interpretation by dali48
Valentine's Day. - A person sets out to write a poem for various reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude towards the reality around him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given moment; to leave a trace on the earth - as he thinks at that moment! ...
Someone who finds himself in this kind of dependence on language is, I think, what is called a poet ... (J. Brodsky, Nobel Prize 1987)

Thursday, February 14, 2008
13.02.2008 - Part 2

Interpretation by dali48
If art teaches anything (for artists, first and foremost), it is the privacy of human existence. As the oldest and most literal form of private enterprise, it fosters in a person, consciously or unconsciously, a sense of his uniqueness, - thereby transforming him from a social animal into an autonomous "I" ... 
I am not advocating the replacement of the state with a library, although this thought has often occurred to me; but I have no doubt that there would be much less suffering on earth if we had chosen our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs! ... (J. Brodsky)

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