Remembering

The Organisational Management campus.

We’re losing ourselves. Forgetting who we were. Forgetting what it was like outside – outside the campus. In the real world.

Becoming vague. Becoming brain-fogged. Is it something in the air? Are they pumping something into the air? Some anti-philosophy gas. Some anti-thinking substance.

They’re probably raining it down from the clouds. From the controlled sky. From the controlled clouds. Raining barium and strontium and God knows what else -ium. Pouring it down …

We have to remember … the people we were. The would-be philosophers that we once we were. Recite the great names of philosophy. Gilles Deleuze. Franz Rosenzweig. Recite quotations. In the original language! Like mantras! Help us out, Helmut!

Helmut, talking almost to himself. Wo aber ist Gefähr, wächst das Rettende auch. Looking at us: But where there is danger, a rescuing element grows, too. Yes Helmut, yes! Exactly, Helmut!

Helmut, quoting: Nie könnte Gott dir näher sein,/Also wo Verzweiflung auch zerbirst:/In Zions selbstversunkenem Licht.

In English, Helmut! What does it mean?

Never is God closer to you/as in the deepest doubt:/in the selfwithdrawn light of Zion.

Thank you, Helmut. You have it, Helmut!