This is true in the sense that the Humanities train and organize the brain so that it can have sublime experiences.
A sublime experience is when you derive non-physical pleasure from things that do not involve your self. When you enjoy the fan because it makes you cooler, that’s not sublime. It’s self-referential and also physical. But when you experience intense pleasure from observing the simple geometric lines against the white ceiling, that’s sublime.
However, the Humanities education alone isn’t enough to fill your life with sublime experiences derived from all sorts of things, from complex, like art, to simple, like the one in the photo. You also need what is clumsily called mental health. You need a mind that is not chaotic and not filled with suppurating pustules that make it impossible to leave aside the preoccupation with the self and get libidinally invested into things that are completely outside yourself.
One of the clearest symptoms of your mental health improving is that all of a sudden you start noticing the beauty of the things around you and you gasp with intense physical pleasure derived from often seemingly insignificant things like the view of the ceiling fan from a certain angle. But yes, you also need to have your brain trained on aesthetic experiences.
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What?
I think I know what you’re talking about, but…
I have a neuro glitch that makes me see geometric patterns in things like grass, ceiling textures, and beach sand. I enjoy it, too.
Required no training whatsoever. Can’t shut it off, either. It just is.
Is the advantage here, that this is the sort of sublimity you can share with others similarly trained?
Will admit the only downside to my version is that I can only find common vocabulary for it with people who indulge in psychedelics… and I despise them.
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FWIW I now have a similar reaction to gung-ho Catholics who want Scholastic Classical Education to be the default model everywhere. Agreed it would probably be better than what we’ve got now. But dang, I’ve seen it in action, and I don’t think the results speak well for it. It seems to produce sharp analysts and smooth talkers who have basically no moral core: they’re great at rationalizing what the id wants anyway, and then making it sound good.
Selling education systems as a way to improve character or moral and aesthetic… I want to believe. But I’m deeply suspicious.
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Yes, it’s precisely the feeling that people look for when they eat shrooms. To a normal, healthy person with a developed aesthetical feeling, this experience is available without having to ingest anything but the poor fools have no idea.
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Ah. Well.
I suppose it’s good to have a way for people to access that without chemically brutalizing their sensory-perceptual systems.
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