eleutheria

Anti-revolutionary

[Most scholars and thinkers] imagine every necessity as a state of distress, as a painful compelled comformity and constraint; and thought itself they regard as something slow, hesitant, almost as toil and often as 'worthy of the sweat of the noble' - and not at all as soemthing easy, divine, and a closest relation of high spirits and the dance! ... Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them. In the last resort there exists an order of rank of states of soul with which the order of rank of problems accords; and the supreme problems repel without mercy everyone who ventures near them without being, through the elevation and power of his spirituality, predestined to their solution... . coarse feet may never tread such carpets: that has been seen to in the primal law of things; the doors remain shut against such importunates, though they may batter and shatter their heads against them! ... Many generations must have worked to prepare for the philosopher... ."

Beyond Good and Evil, We Scholars, 213

This links in with undercurrent's work on Bacon, freedom, chance. Progression by chance, but well bred chance - never man-made revolution which, to me, is a pretender to nihilism (as in the pro-capitalism theorist's attitude that once everything is destoyed, then we'll have some excitement; that revolutionary anti-human destruction is the only way forward. Deuleuze and Guattari misread, and used to shout at people "Don't stratify me, man!"). Give yourself up, but have 'control' at the same time: Bacon style.

Now I'll keep looking for that bit about sleep and body....