Whole things get blown up and fragmented. Our task is to constantly be repairing wholeness. And sometimes burying people.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
Museums are one kind of home for scattered fragments of past wholeness, but they rarely even try to create new wholeness.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing whole cultures can become museums of themselves if they resist fragmentation too rigorously. Tibetans have done this.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness change is what creates wholeness - the process of repair, not stasis1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing I like the word "repair" except it usually means "returning to previous state". "Bricolage" is good except implies newness.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Daoism has some technical vocabulary that is probably relevant here, in particular te https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_%28Chinese%29#Taoist_usages …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Lao Tzŭ said: "Tao produces a thing; Tê maintains it." – "Tao Tê Ching," 51.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing Chuang Tzŭ said: "That which things get in order to live is called Tê." – Chapter XII.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Thanks, I’ll follow up on this! (Someday maybe Taoism will start to make sense to me…)3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing i could use some sort of "applied daoism" cheatsheet1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@cwage @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing It exists! It's called the Daodejing. It's really short.
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