the legacy of the uncle generation

Stanislaw Barszczak—The world is beautiful— What is the legacy of this generation of the sixties and before? There was enormous, a Legacy of a lost generation! I have been young. Small is the number that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. “Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.” We crave permission openly to become our secret selves. Freedom is not a tea party, Poland. Freedom is a war. During my pilgrimage on earth has born a new generation, that someone called genration of the golf (compare a sports game). Is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. I consecrate my generation and beyond (in German: Heilung). My uncle’s generation would call generation, which was based on some morality. Today, however, there are miraculous era, like today, and being together is not based so much on human nature, but on feelings. But then again everything is allowed, there is no morality. No longer keep up with “creative” civilization golf. What to do in this situation? We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners. We look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it’s only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It’s true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you’ll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That’s not a star worth following; it’s just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars. I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool’s gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood’s rich bohemian seam? I leave it now to others to decide. Our lives teach us who we are. But If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect. We, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we cannot tie down, though we grasp at their hair, though we rope them while they sleep. I grew up kissing books and bread. I, however, was raised neither as socialist nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a socialjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was–what’s the word these days?–atomised. A real Częstochowa mix. My search has always been for something permanent, for what is behind the transitory, the contingent. I’m fighting loss and death, which probably relates to the absence of my father in my first years. There is a thing that lives in us, eating our food, breathing our air, looking out through our eyes, and when it comes out to play nobody is immune; possessed, we turn murderously upon one another, thing-darkness in our eyes and real weapons in our hands, neighbour against thing-ridden neighbour, thing-driven cousin against cousin, brother-thing against brother-thing, thing-child against thing-child. Always I make a returning view to the beauty of our world. The world is beautiful. How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman’s axe?…A generation of the cosmonaut Miroslaw Hermaszewski. He covered his face that night because he had been assailed by fear; a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world’s beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate’s victory would not make it other than it was. The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know if I am. The most important endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity for life. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity” I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. Islam is a great influence of today. Muhammad was perfect, I suppose- intimidation Islam is premature. We are finding last sentence different, nobody is perfect. For that reason a cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, I suppose, he has once said: Jesus Christ, “he was not raised; he arose”. (you find some of the thoughts by Salman Rusdi and Albert Einstein here)

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