Szmura had no interest in internal Bosnian cultural differences and presupposed that there was a deep, essential kinship between us, which is to say that by mocking Bogdan he was making me the target.
Creative artists who continue to work late in life so often seem to undergo a sea change: a distillation, a new intensity, a sloughing off of excess and ornament in favor of deep essentials.
If they are focusing on content questions (who, what, where, why, when), expand their inquiry so they think beyond the basic facts and dig into deeper or "essential" questions.
And I've developed something I call Gift Theory that I use with my clients to help them connect with their deepest, most essential longings".
Either way, I know I will be O.K. Crazy as it doubtless must sound, I think that Dick's gnosticism responds to a deep and essential anxiety of our late modern times.
At that deepest, most essential point of manifestation, the seed of the object emerges.
I would not call the passage from Amos racist, as such; but with "Ethiopians" it does single out a nation optically different from the ancient Israelites the prophet addresses - and this tells us that the tendency of considering surface differences as indicative of deep or essential disparities is as ancient as it is wrong.
That not only reduces richness in one's own life and sense of self, but if we assume that rich, deep thinking is essential to society then it will have a detrimental effect on that over the long run.
Further and deeper engagement is essential, particularly in the realms of security, trade and democratization.
Expanding the idea of governance away from arid technicalities towards a broader and deeper understanding is essential.
