Inspiration för skrivande - "Ah, but this is not mere writing..."

  

The written text evinces settledness, doneness. It assumes the air of the completed thought. The spirited man's thoughts, however, are never "complete." He would not have the living waters of his mind boiled off so as to leave behind these bitter crystals. He wants to be free to flow towards his goal. Like a ballplayer in the midst of a game, he neither thinks about nor answers for his momentary actions, so long as they advance the cause of winning. Any break in the motion, any occasion to stop and think about what's happening, is a great annoyance to everyone, players and spectators alike, and usually indicates that something has gone unexpectedly wrong. There is in that pause, even if just for a fleeting instant, pain, and the beginnings of that boredom, ennui, meaninglessness, and darkness which spirit must instinctively avoid like the plague.
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In any event, the written text now stands before us as a problem in itself. The spirited man has little use for writing in the best of times, and even less desire to be associated with the ignoble piracy which writing has become in our own time. We must take it for granted, though, that writing is still indispensable. There is virtually no chance of influencing anybody without it, nor of setting forth high-minded notions in something like a permanent form that can be handed on to posterity. Some strange alchemy we have need of here, in order to transmute the act of writing into the sort of "game" that the spirited man can play with profit. For he alone can lead us out of this morass, but the only available means by which to do so are the very ones which he is most ill-configured to make use of.

The answer, it seems, is polemical writing, the thought which is also deed. While not eschewing factual accuracy, and certainly not eschewing artistry, the writings of the spirited man must always be an attack, a gauntlet thrown down, a threat he intends to make good. In other words, we must reverse the ancient error of the scribes, who hid themselves within the folds of "mere writing." We, on the other hand, seek to reveal ourselves with what we write. In every word our spirit must breathe forth, "Ah, but this is not mere writing..."

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Jag hittade bloggen som texten är tagen från genom att googla "intelligent dasein", för att se om någon hade gjort något roligt med det faktum att "dasein" låter lite som "design". Tihi.