The Penniless Epicurist sounds a bit like a tit I know. But she’s not, she’s just trying to get by in an expensive city. Trying to live sustainably. Conscientious decadence that doesn’t cost the earth (in either sense).
Living maximum on the minimum.
“Trying to live sustainably. Conscientious decadence that doesn’t cost the earth (in either sense).”
Implies the willingness to ask questions and explore the meaning of experiential knoweldge. That has a biological imperative, in that the primary data for the human animal is the experience.
Experiential knowledge is primary data, while the meaning of the lived experience is absolutely core to the identity of the organism.
Knowing how to grow food, how to resolve old problems, how to notice the events of the habitat, how to learn and much more are all experiential in nature. They can be experienced and mastered without literacy.
Indeed they can, am I suggesting otherwise?
I’m certainly not advocating illiteracy.
Quite correct. I was writing all that in addition. I think and sense nature works as you describe. Minimum energy to create the maximum life. Built on cells using sun light to metabolise material to be used to make life. So that more life can be. Natural decadance, in the sense of good lives lived by all, experienced as such, from the base line of the embodied experience and the meanings feltand then as each dies, material is released for re-use (in truth we rent our matter) in a habitat that is more abundant. Lush.
And the problem is the city. What it does. Thus living in the city poses the question of a critical analysis, which is experiential, and thus is knowledge?
Which can be articulated on a blog. Or explored. A bit, anyways.
Ha ha! I hope so xx
I don’t know how I found this, it just magically opened in my browser.
Really enjoy reading your posts, its’ strikes a lot of chord, look forward to reading more in the future! : )