Mythopoetics

    To live like the character of a book, by an inspiring myth, to die if needed. This narrative of domination which ties us to a foundational myth and is enacted socially as love for the Mother-Father Land, for the ancestors, prophets and messiahs of the group, becomes at once a critique of the social values when the totem is called Dulcinea del Toboso. Like a theorem proven from wrong assumptions, but reaching the right conclusion nonetheless, Alonso Quijano’s crusade against injustice, dullness and hypocrisy of life is still today a lesson on the value of ideals: to transform the world through love for the receding horizon. Dulcinea might be ugly and rude, with overnight onion-salad breath, but when surfing the sunset colors, as she constantly does in Don Quixote’s eyes, no other Queen or divine entity compares to her. Dulcinea is indifferent to us, and so it is with the rest of our ideals; they are simply our wonderful madness or innocent interpretation of the receive...

   Could we understand the universe without thinking in terms of a planning intelligence? Such question is rather tricky for a representation of order is already at work in the synthesis which implies our notion of universe , a unity of pluralities. The pluralities are given by common experience, the unity is our addendum, a mimetical projection of our thinking unity at work (cultural and mythical more that individual). We impose the need for a global and unified representation of order and in the process find ourselves with two alternatives: it is a blind order, a gigantic machine at work, or is a purposeful piece of art. A third possibility: the universe is a mere random play, would contradict the concept of universe, for the union of a plurality implies a principle of order for the synthesis. Therefore, we are either part of a cosmic machine or of a cosmic piece of art. In both cases intelligence is at work and the idea of a plan.    What happens if instead of ...