tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post431104826769672307..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: On GenerosityDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-2340629880403550222011-04-23T02:28:24.049-07:002011-04-23T02:28:24.049-07:00Imagine you are in a small village, far from megal...Imagine you are in a small village, far from megalopole lights and numerous possibilities of interaction. This village is not so lost, most of the guys are not alcoholic (france), most of the guys don't go to church between two fox tv broadcast (us). The place is nice, discrete landscapes are well worked by generatiins of inhabitants who put some trees there to surprise future inhabitants at the corner of a narrow roads ( france, again). Imagine that, like in contemporary myths, the poorest guy of the village nevertheless watch public brodcast with intellectuals arguing on social matters, far from his every day life, just to know a little about the world he generally only knows by the little stream at the end of the raod.<br /><br />Imagine you have only one world which can be reached, and that this village world, lost in french country side is nevertheless ok.<br /><br />You can't switch in this situation. It's not possible to say, ok, let's switch to something else.<br /><br />And in this case your generosity has to deal with the day after. And you have sometimes to go to the end point your generosity leads you, or just preserve your own integrity when you don't want to deal any more, but, in this case, old rules of sociability helps you stay friend even being more distant.<br /><br />What I mean is that you can imagine generosity with out existential fear of the lost.@PierreDDNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00485581322634051533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-28987399856532730772011-04-19T21:21:42.342-07:002011-04-19T21:21:42.342-07:00@ DrW: Well, all I can say is: beautiful, truly. ...@ DrW: Well, all I can say is: beautiful, truly. Not melodramatic at all — just beautiful. Thank you.Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-80698791556933241592011-04-19T19:05:46.759-07:002011-04-19T19:05:46.759-07:00This is not meant to be melodramatic: but it can&#...This is not meant to be melodramatic: but it can't help but to be. <br /><br />My town had a tornado recently and my parents house and their nursery were just devastated. I mean it's bad - the worse thing I've seen with my own eyes. <br /><br />And I got there as early as I could after police let people in that part of town and there were like 30 people already there. And not just people in town, but nurseries from near-by towns brought work crews, loaders, dump-trucks and so forth. <br /><br />They were not nurseries that were in a capitalistic state of competition. They were people who were networked. And honestly it was the most moving example of generosity I've ever seen face to face. It was beautifully sad - like Picasso's Blue Nude, but way more meaningful, because this was more real than art. (And I don't think I've ever thought of anything being more real than art.) <br /><br />And I feel weird about posting this because I'm not looking for sympathy. I just couldn't not respond because I've been thinking about nothing but generosity all day.drwatsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16184322472302989822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-2898537694832038272011-04-18T21:55:17.347-07:002011-04-18T21:55:17.347-07:00I hope that's a good thing! Thanks for commen...I hope that's a good thing! Thanks for commenting, either way.....Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-86051067984555716282011-04-18T09:46:37.140-07:002011-04-18T09:46:37.140-07:00this piece has been galvanizing my thought process...this piece has been galvanizing my thought processes all weekendAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com