This Old Man

Because of the theme that was emerging, I guess I slow things down a bit, yet I think the podcast still moves along rather nicely. It comes out to about twenty minutes, but unlike the Passover Seder, which turns out to be one of its themes, the time flies by.  And I end with a  rare vintage Seder Event from about 1946.

Which turns into philosophy.  So the podcast starts off intending to be expressive of the happiness I was experiencing in that moment, and in the midst of the expression, philosophy happens.  I hope you are able to pick up on it.

An evocation of another time and another place.  Paterson, the place where the remembering takes place,  was magical in many ways, witness William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsburg, to say nothing of Lou Costello and Larry  Doby.  The time is the twenties transported via my father to me in the forties and beyond.   Somehow I find this remembering transcendent.  And I don’t use that word lightly.

But still noticing philosophical possibilities along the way. Philosophy is always done best, I think, on the move.

Think of this as the Grand Opening! New listeners will be delighted to find an introduction to--and existing listeners a continuation of--what makes Scult's regular meditations such a warm and enriching presence in the life of any mind. 

Welcome to our first devotion! (Far from our first recording, somewhat arbitrarily our first release.) 

Special interests, moneyed interests, interest rate calculators, negative interest rates, Interesa of Avila, are you interested? Are animals interested? Is the entire concept of interest a manufactured capitalist subjectivity? Is interest a tool or an unconscious affect of the will, whose true target is (always) elsewhere? Is interest a vector of cathexis we can trigger in others?  Does our seducibility to our interests obstruct our ability to be present? Does it obstruct our ability to resist power? Is there such a thing as nondual interest? If there was, would it be of interest to anyone?