the idea is that if you're if you fall
into a chaotic state and everything
falls apart there's the possibility that
things can come back together including
what you've just learned in a new state
and so you can conceptualize that
symbolically as the existence of the
dead farther at the bottom of the of the
chaotic landscape that's that's the
proper way as far as I can tell to think
about it's like there's something down
there that's capable of reforming and
reemerging that's that incorporates the
previous state but that takes it farther
and you're not going to find that unless
you descend into this chaotic place
where it feels like all order is gone
well you generate order it's going to be
akin to the order that you had before
but there's going to be something new
about it as well so it's down to the
bottom of the chaotic state to bring up
what you're missing and that's one level
of analysis another level of analysis
you think is well that's also what
you're doing that's what you should be
doing in principle when you're going to
university you know you're you come to
university in roughly the same state as
Pinocchio
you know you're a bit of a puppet and
you're kind of a jackass and what the
hell do you know and it's chaotic
because you haven't found your place in
the world properly and I don't mean
merely for career not that that's not
relevant because it is but it's more
important than that it's because you're
a historical creature because you are a
product of history unless you are
enculturated properly which means you
understand your past and in the sense
that the humanities can allow for that
then you haven't been able to
incorporate the wisdom of your ancestors
into your day-to-day pursuits and that's
going to make you weak that's the idea
anyways and so when you come to
university this is what university is
for it's so that you can go into the
chaos and you can pull
something out of it that's truly a value
and you can incorporate that in your own
personality and that makes you much much
stronger
like literally stronger not more
educated but no it's not like you know
more facts it's that you literally are a
better person and better means you can
do far more things you can articulate
your deaths that's something that's of
crucial importance is that you can
articulate yourself properly which is
more useful than anything else you could
possibly manage like if you guys come
out of university capable of making
coherent arguments and using language
properly you're so powerful that it's
ridiculous you you always you can lay
out a strategy and pursue it
successfully and maybe the strategy is
actually learning to toward something
good something that will actually work
work for you and work for other people
as well and I don't really understand
what people are told this when they come
to university is that your goal is to
make yourself as articulate in writing
and thinking and speaking as you
possibly can because that opens the door
to everything that you'll want to do in
the future no matter what it is the more
articulate person always Rises always
because they lay out strategies more
effectively they lay out the reasons for
doing something or for not doing
something more particularly they
convince people and properly so that
they can grapple with potentials that
lies ahead effectively and they can
defend themselves when they're
challenged and so all of that is going
into the past into the chaos of the past
you could even say and pulling up the
spirit that inhabits that from the
bottom and uniting with it and if you
don't do that
well you're defenseless in the case of
in the face of the tragedy of life and
and then then that's not so good because
if you're defenseless in the face of the
tragedy of life then you get way more
hurt
then you would otherwise get and some of
the people around you and then the
probability that you're going to be
resentful and bitter about that is
really high because no one likes to fail
continually and then you get bitter and
resentful and then once you're bitter
and resentful well-being being vengeful
and mean is the next step it doesn't
take much of a transformation to move
you from that place to the next