A few months ago the correspondence with Hitler was brought up somewhere, something in the manner of a new revelation, though it may have been known to some scholars all along. The Orwell letter was new to me.
Not to suggest it's anything other than madness, as I've been saying, it is not beyond understanding at least in the manner of dialectical comprehension and theodicy/anti-theodicy - the same "justification of the ways of God to humanity" and "justification of the ways of human beings to God/themselves" that can't be attempted in light of history without entrapping the justifier in seemingly irresolvable contradictions. Gandhi's "collective suicide/collective re-birth" theory seems insane, like a justification of the Holocaust, but consciously deciding to reject it morally and intellectually doesn't extricate us from the moral-intellectual and historical implications: Because we can't seem to live without justification, merely refusing to engage in it on those terms leads us to seek it in other ones that turn out to be equivalent, until our new system of repression of the truth about ourselves, our sane definition of sanity, is revealed as another version of the same madness.
A few months ago the correspondence with Hitler was brought up somewhere, something in the manner of a new revelation, though it may have been known to some scholars all along. The Orwell letter was new to me.
Not to suggest it's anything other than madness, as I've been saying, it is not beyond understanding at least in the manner of dialectical comprehension and theodicy/anti-theodicy - the same "justification of the ways of God to humanity" and "justification of the ways of human beings to God/themselves" that can't be attempted in light of history without entrapping the justifier in seemingly irresolvable contradictions. Gandhi's "collective suicide/collective re-birth" theory seems insane, like a justification of the Holocaust, but consciously deciding to reject it morally and intellectually doesn't extricate us from the moral-intellectual and historical implications: Because we can't seem to live without justification, merely refusing to engage in it on those terms leads us to seek it in other ones that turn out to be equivalent, until our new system of repression of the truth about ourselves, our sane definition of sanity, is revealed as another version of the same madness.