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Henri Bergson is a major figure in a minor strand of philosophy, process philosophy, includes Whitehead , Heraclitus , and more recently Deleuze who is mostly responsible for revived interest in Bergson.

42. All of us are working on the same project. Some consciously, with understanding; some without knowing it (I think this is what Heraclitus meant when he said that "those who sleep are also hard at work" – that they too collaborate in what happens.) Some of us work in one way, and some in others. And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things – they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well. > So make up your mind who you'll choose to work with. The force that directs all things will make good use of you regardless–will put you on its payroll and set you to work. But make sure it;'s not the job Chrysippus speakcs of: the bad line in the play, put there for laughs.

This passage popped up just as I am in the midst of what might euphemistically be called a job transition. No idea who I will work with next, but hope its better than the current gang of shits, even if shits are necessary for the world's project.

The mention of Heraclitus is curious because I think of him as the opposite of all this cozy unity, he's a conflict theory guy.

War is the father of us all and our king. War discloses who is godlike and who is but a man, who is a slave and who is a freeman.

It must be seen clearly that war is the natural state of man. Justice is contention. Through contention all things come to be.

Something appropriate about the fragementary nature of the Heraclitus that we have received.

Heraclitus

05 Nov 2022 - 05 Nov 2022

Panta Rei – Everything Flows - Πάντα ῥεῖ – Surely one of the most concise statements of wisdom possible.