Secession from the world – but to where? We need a new desert to escape into. We need a desert to open.
Organisational Management is the desert.
Internal exile isn’t half as meaningful as external exile. There’s nowhere to go but inside, in some sense. We’ll escape into our fantasies. Our delusions. Our crazed new religiosity.
All of this is but a sign of our total irrelevance. They can let us have this – our mad philosophy. And just get on with whatever they’re getting on with.
Our own private philosophy. Our so-called Jewish Gnosticism. They happy to let us busy ourselves with this. It’s clearly not going to blow the empire apart.
Full of thwarted world-flight. Of failed world-escape. Nowhere for us to go but inward. But inward to what?
They can hear us. Everything we say. They know it’s just posturing. We’re no threat.
They let us talk. They let us goof around. Laugh at everything. Because it doesn’t do anything. And nor do we.
Philosophy is irrelevance, right? It means nothing to anyone.
Saints’ laughter. A holy irreverence. Against, always against.
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