“The AC was all about bringing all great subjects together. The AC wasn’t some dreary, stuffy set of academic tomes. The books were written in letters of fire. The pages burned. Smoke rose from the covers. These were polemics and artworks and extravaganzas in soaring rhetoric. They were assassinations, denunciations, and deconstructions. They were about martyrs, saints and sinners, angels and demons. They were incendiary. They were dynamite. They blew up everything. Shouldn’t books be detonations? We must not have the blind leading the blind and the bland leading the bland. We must cross the rivers of hell, and swear our most solemn oaths over the black waters of the Styx.” PassionLiteratureBooksIlluminismGlass Bead GameThe Armageddon ConspiracyGod SeriesMike Hockney Book:Without the Mob, There Is No Circus Source: Without the Mob, There Is No Circus
“Note 54. I have often pondered whether Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game painted, perhaps not fully consciously, a good picture of what this new world could look like: a small and poor cultural en intellectual elite living in a secluded 'Castalia,' but that performed the glass bead game - an abstract synthesis of the arts and science -to tie together and give meaning to existence as well as the world as a whole. Remember that Castalia has a diplomatic wing whose role is to negotiate with the outside world to keep its funding. Of course Knecht leaves in the end, but there is one way of reading his ultimate drowning as a sacrifice so that the overman - Tito - can live.” HesseOvermanGlass Bead Game Book:Nietzsche's Great Politics Source: Nietzsche's Great Politics
“And they didn't like to pay with trust and love, but rather with money and goods. They betrayed each other and expected being betrayed themselves.” HesseRainmakerGlass Bead Game Book:The Glass Bead Game Source: The Glass Bead Game