Vegaphobia.

 

Hay for Beef

Round here, late April to end of June is hay for the beef cows season, not Meadowlarks or lettuce.  In the essence/experience discussion fear of vegetarians, or Vegaphobia, as well as Carniphobia, an intense, irrational form of Meat Avoidance, conjoined with rurality sums it all up really 

Heidegger and Sartre on Essence

 

Moth Mullein

Essence, for Heidegger emerged from Experience. His deliberate way of putting it was thus : "The Essence of Dasein lies in its existence." So put that in your pipe. Heidegger's book Being and Time was read by Sartre when Sartre was in prison waiting for the authorities to decide whether he was going to be a danger to France's relationship with the Third Reich and if so should he be sent to a labor camp. Inevitably the idea of being thrown into the swamp where a being over time creates its own meaning was tempting.   

Run Rabbit

 

Wild Bunny

"The Role of Myth in Community Reinvention in a Post Industrial Age: An Essay in Postmodernist Interpretation." A simple enough title for Delyth Primrose's Doctoral Thesis, but as a title was it humble enough? The point being that back then when we were all so much younger it was the rage for the brighter sparks in the Western World to pontificate mightily on the end of the Industrial Age to no great effect and even fewer conclusions. The increasing powerlessness of the worker was a prime source of tremendous unhappiness, we were ripening for the fascists, and of course in the scrap for funding, society was increasingly becoming a problem of Business Management. As a result our world as an engine of productivity lost its dreams to another death spiral. Let's face it, as we stare back into the past, Miss Primrose's preoccupation with sadomasochism was probably more fruitful. Baxter certainly thinks so. Yet, like a cry into the dark, all of fifty years later, we still hear the lyrics of Chambawumba's song Tubthumping.

Hell is Other People

 

Afternoon Rest

Sartre's comment was at the end of one of his plays about two men who found themselves in a room together and slowly realized that the room they were in was hell.