Hm. I didn’t have anything in particular in mind, and IDK what Yerka was thinking.
We could say that the sea has the quality of the Real; a vastness, that one traverses on a very narrow bridge, which seems opaque and infinitely deep—literally, un-fathom-able. Yet on closer investigation one finds, in some places, scaffolding that cleaves through the depths in thin lines, a heritage deposited by past explorers, who, having traversed inherited pathways and then struck out a bit further, turned around and set up the way for their successors—the next lantern in a line of lanterns leading down into the thoughtmines.
Jacek Yerka, virtue of scholarship / virtue of curiosity
Is the sea a metaphor for something?
Hm. I didn’t have anything in particular in mind, and IDK what Yerka was thinking.
We could say that the sea has the quality of the Real; a vastness, that one traverses on a very narrow bridge, which seems opaque and infinitely deep—literally, un-fathom-able. Yet on closer investigation one finds, in some places, scaffolding that cleaves through the depths in thin lines, a heritage deposited by past explorers, who, having traversed inherited pathways and then struck out a bit further, turned around and set up the way for their successors—the next lantern in a line of lanterns leading down into the thoughtmines.
”The further from shore, the deeper the ocean.”
(shore is pronounced like ’sure’)
Not sure if it fits this image but I liked this quote which was mentioned on EconTalk.