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"Ortega points out" "takes place about the time that a mechanistic interpretation of the world came in" "today running up against a hard world" - 1986 #SkywalkerRanch
"Don Quixote was the last hero of the Middle Ages. He rode out to encounter giants, but instead of giants, his environment produced windmills. Ortega points out that this story takes place about the time that a mechanistic interpretation of the world came in, so that the environment was no longer spiritually responsive to the hero. The hero is today running up against a hard world that is in no way responsive to his spiritual need… Now it has become to such an extent a sheerly mechanistic world, as interpreted through our physical sciences, Marxist sociology, and behavioristic psychology, that we’re nothing but a predictable pattern of wires responding to stimuli. The nineteenth century interpretation has squeezed the freedom of the human will out of modern life." Joseph Campbell / Bill Moyers Skywalker Ranch, California summer 1986
December 28, 2024 at 4:14 PM