I read this as a sailing metaphor. The Force of Tides and the Choice of Winds. Americans, especially artist/atheist, love the wind but often lack direction. In a way they are correct, the tide is holding them back. They need to tack and jibe. The tide just keeps moving in and out from the shore like a Greek wheel of fortune. In a storm the tide dominates and tosses you about like a dingy. To fight the tide you need 50 people with some oars on a Penteconter. But you don’t do it alone. Those who can do both will get where they want to go.
That’s a great image for this idea for productive tension. The ever temptation is to want to collapse the tension at all conscious levels of awareness, but wisdom is to allow them to exist while looking faithfully at the horizon.
I loved this one. The intro really grabbed me.
I read this as a sailing metaphor. The Force of Tides and the Choice of Winds. Americans, especially artist/atheist, love the wind but often lack direction. In a way they are correct, the tide is holding them back. They need to tack and jibe. The tide just keeps moving in and out from the shore like a Greek wheel of fortune. In a storm the tide dominates and tosses you about like a dingy. To fight the tide you need 50 people with some oars on a Penteconter. But you don’t do it alone. Those who can do both will get where they want to go.
That’s a great image for this idea for productive tension. The ever temptation is to want to collapse the tension at all conscious levels of awareness, but wisdom is to allow them to exist while looking faithfully at the horizon.
Only because they have less humility to learn, not because I think they’re right.