- Jordan Peterson: Dreams, drama, myths. Help me out of my left hemisphere
- Fry: Comedy. Timing, baby!
- Iain Mcgilchrist: right hemisphere
-- right hemisphere: dance, music, poetry, rhythm.
-- right hemisphere: mirror neurons
--- Rene Girard: dance is imitative. Watch out for murder!
- Girard: Christ exposes foundation of murder
-- we can't avoid imitating
-- the only way out: imitate Christ
- Pageau: metaphorical pattern
But Pageau an artist who physically explores pattern all the time and understands its power visually. Like him I see the power of the formal structure to take your thought from the material object into the infinite through the development of repetition and rhythm which are almost visual records of imitation. I think all religion uses this power of patterns, to lead people away from imitating each other in desire, and towards imitating each other in seeking transcendence of what? Desiring the earthly thing our rivals have.
In primitive religion it's blood sacrifice and Christ does away with that. Modernism rightly completes that but tries to throw out imitation too. Because if you go right brain, you get the Nazis. I think Girard read it this way but came into the liturgy of Christian church because he understood there was no way to avoid imitating and those who tried were fooling themselves. The only solution was to imitate Christ. Is Pageau's emphasis on pattern Peterson's route out of the Modernist trap?
Sadly, although he is, for me, as a Brit, a bit of a "National Traeasure", Fry is so invested in his persona that he cannot become a good faith conversationalist acheiving "dei Logos" in case he moves away from that and loses status.
“I think what has been happening around Jordan Peterson since Oct 2016 is important for the re-evangelization of the West.”
To me THIS is so key. Thanks for all of your insights, Paul. We’re figuring this out, I’m sure of it.
- Jordan Peterson: Dreams, drama, myths. Help me out of my left hemisphere
- Fry: Comedy. Timing, baby!
- Iain Mcgilchrist: right hemisphere
-- right hemisphere: dance, music, poetry, rhythm.
-- right hemisphere: mirror neurons
--- Rene Girard: dance is imitative. Watch out for murder!
- Girard: Christ exposes foundation of murder
-- we can't avoid imitating
-- the only way out: imitate Christ
- Pageau: metaphorical pattern
But Pageau an artist who physically explores pattern all the time and understands its power visually. Like him I see the power of the formal structure to take your thought from the material object into the infinite through the development of repetition and rhythm which are almost visual records of imitation. I think all religion uses this power of patterns, to lead people away from imitating each other in desire, and towards imitating each other in seeking transcendence of what? Desiring the earthly thing our rivals have.
In primitive religion it's blood sacrifice and Christ does away with that. Modernism rightly completes that but tries to throw out imitation too. Because if you go right brain, you get the Nazis. I think Girard read it this way but came into the liturgy of Christian church because he understood there was no way to avoid imitating and those who tried were fooling themselves. The only solution was to imitate Christ. Is Pageau's emphasis on pattern Peterson's route out of the Modernist trap?
Thanks very much for the write-up Paul! These summaries are really helpful when time is constrained.
Sadly, although he is, for me, as a Brit, a bit of a "National Traeasure", Fry is so invested in his persona that he cannot become a good faith conversationalist acheiving "dei Logos" in case he moves away from that and loses status.