The beginning of a mythic world or a mythic tradition is a seizure – something that pulls you out of yourself, beyond yourself, beyond all rational patterns. It is out of such seizures that civilizations are built. All you have to do is look at their monuments, and you’ll see that these are the nuttiest things that mankind over thought of. Look at the Pyramids. Just try to interpret them in terms of rational means and aims or economic necessities; think of what it meant in a society with the technology of Egypt – which is to say practically nothing – to build a thing that massive. The cathedrals, the great temples of the world, or the work of any artist who has given his life to producing these thing – all of these come from mythic seizure […]. That awakening of awe, that awakening of zeal, is the beginning, and curiously enough, that’s what pulls people together.
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About Individuation
Perfection is inhuman. Human beings are not prefect. What evokes our love – and I mean love, not lust – is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person, compared to the ideal of your animus or anima, peeks through, say, This is a challenge to my compassion. Then make a try, and something might begin to get going here. You might begin to be quit of your fix on your anima. It’s just as bad to be fixed on your anima and miss as to be fixed on your persona: you’ve got to get free of that. And the lesson of life is to release you from it. This is what Jung calls individuation, to see people and yourself in terms of what you indeed are, not in terms of all these archetypes that you are projecting around and that have been projected on you.
About the Functions of Mythology
“Traditionally, the first function of a living mythology is to reconcile consciousness to the preconditions of its own experience; that is to say to the nature of life. Now, life lives on life. Its first law is, now I’ll eat you, now you eat me – quite something for the consciousness to assimilate. […] The impact of this horror on a sensitive consciousness is terrific – this monster which is life. Life is a horrendous presence, and you wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for that. […]
Dealing with dead C code
Browsing the OpenBSD source (yes, I use git for that because CVS is horrible – don’t deny it!), I find a lot of spots doing things like the following, which is just a minor variation to the “#if 0” idea :
Invoke directories recursively with GNU make
Hi folks, I guess we all have had this problem and we mostly solve it in a crude way by hardcoding directories into static targets. But since fiddling around with BSD make, here’s a way to make this a bit more flexible for GNU make. Your Makefile will look like this:
SUBDIR= dir1 dir2 dir3 include recurse.mk
Granted this isn’t much, because the logic is hidden in the file recurse.mk, which is put into the project’s root directory:
Bye bye OpenDPI
I was there when they announced the proud arrival of the open source DPI engine OpenDPI. Totally in awe, I may add. A generous move towards the community. A chance to better the bitter fight in the field of net neutrality. The promise of easing the fear-mongering between governments and digital rights activists. Or just a clever marketing move? The industry cried out, but nobody heard their screams. The masses rejoiced, at least for a while.
About Insanity in Perspective
And those who were seen dancing
were thought to be insane by those
who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche