Well, I haven't posted in quite a while. I've been working on lots of projects and have been too tired to sit down and put many thoughts together. One interesting, and sad, thing that has happened lately is that Borders Books is going out of business. It's sad because I loved that place and many people will probably loose their jobs. It's interesting because this is another example of how one man's advance in technology is another man's wrecking ball.
Anyhoo, I recently purchased some discounted books from my favorite, soon to be deceased, book vendor. Among them were a copy of the Tao and the Sefer Yetzirah. As I read them I was struck by how there seemed to be parallel themes in the works and the simple beauty and elegance of the thoughts they contained. The older I get the more impressed I become by how beautiful and graceful simple things, like ideas and truths, actually are. The world was simple once (Or maybe it wasn't and I just like to think it was.) Often times I believe that our technology is helping to advance not our culture but our spiritual death as well as the death of our world. Sounds real cynical like, huh? It is a bit. Fortunately/unfortunately, there's most likely a little bit of truth in everything.
Did you ever watch the movie Gladiator? There's a seen where Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) says to Maximus (Russell Crowe) "Tell me again, Maximus, why are we here?" and Maximus responds "For the glory of the Empire, sire." For the glory of the empire. What a pity.
