Like most times, I need not say anything since most likely, Benjamin already wrote it some place and in a clearer way than I could ever manage.
Here´s a fable for your enjoyment.
Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility…
How does Franklin fit in this fast new world of text-scanners and stop-over-travellers?
A look at Alessandro Baricco´s book I Barbari. Saggio sulla mutazione and his 200-year-apart perspective of the new barbarians.
- From the Change, Parenthesis drawer(s)
Franklin´s original list only had 12 virtues, actually. He added humility afterwards as to humble his attempt by accepting his lack of humbleness in accordance to the wise old saying: “humility has meaning only for a Subject who prides”. Ok, so that´s not a saying, but it could be. Heiddegger…
Working on it…
How Franklin reentered my life and why and how I intend to keep him in it this time.
- From the Virtue drawer(s)