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Generative power of Not-Knowing -or- Utopia

Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate WisÅ‚awa Szymborska on How Our Certitudes Keep Us Small and the Generative Power of Not-Knowing “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’” By Maria Popova  - BrainPickings Purely for the fun of it, Maria Popova drew WisÅ‚awa Szymborska’s poetic island in a map inspired by Thomas More’s Utopia. Polish poet WisÅ‚awa Szymborska (July 2, 1923–February 1, 2012) "explored how our contracting compulsion for knowing can lead us astray in her sublime 1976 poem “Utopia,” found in her Map: Collected and Last Poems ( public library )" -- Maria Popova UTOPIA Island where all becomes clear. Solid ground beneath your feet. The only roads are those that offer access. Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs. The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here with branches disentangled since time immemorial. The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple, sprouts by the spring called Now I Get It. The t...

TrumpCare in its Infancy January 2017

I'm extremely concerned today for my country and this planet.  It appears that history is repeating.     January 27th -- International Holocaust Remembrance Day . President  Trump bars refugees and citizens of Muslim  nations entry into the U.S.A. The New York Times By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-N0827-318 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de Four score and four years ago a dictator brought forth on the European continent an evolving plan to rule the world and subjugate the masses. Now we are engaged in a great resistance , testing whether our nation, or any nations conceived from the learning of our mothers and fathers and so dedicated to liberty, can long endure.  We are met on a great social square of technologic creation .  We have come to dedicate a portion of our wealth, wisdom, and life to those in history that have offered their lives and wisdom so that we may learn and prosper.  It is altogether fitting and proper that we should ...