Heal me please

With respect to Miss West all this connected with the notion of native, which is a modern creation. We today tend to treat the Aristotlean notion of politics as naive. But on the basis of what experiences do we judge it so? Is it on the basis of the immensity of evil in which we are immersed? On the basis of what wisdom? Is it on the basis of knowledge of the techniques for subjugation and aggression? The notion of naivete reveals (and at the same time masks) the entire spiritual hollow­ness of contemporary man. It represents the sub­limation of fear for the sense of own existence. Since we feel that there is no such sense, therefore we venture a slighting assessment of ancient tea­chings as “naive”. A change also took place today in the entire structure of life existence: from vertical to horizontal. The first Sienna West was founded in a transcen­dental order: divine; the second is based on social contract. In other words: while once something was good when it accorded with God’s command­ments, now something is good when it accords with the law. The law in turn is but a human convention — and this is how a revoultion took place in the whole arrangement of values, from vertical to horizontal. The eyes of lost man stop­ped wandering about the skies whence help was expected; now man’s sight roams close to the ground in order to discern what “others will say”. The loss of the transcendental perspective at the same time caused man to shut himself within the limits of life existence. Man has sealed himself within a tight monade, within which he carries out a parmanent monolouge with himself, pretending to be speaking with others.