Friday, February 26, 2010

The virtue of young and old unifying into order

Odysseus then travels through Ithaca to Laertes’ farm. He sends his servants away so he can talk to his father alone. He sends them into his father’s house as part of the family they are now, this symbolically unifies them with the family of Odysseus through his father.
Like dead passing through the old humanities heroes and forefathers, Odysseus passes through to his forefather and heroes: his real father.
Odysseus’ father does not recognise Odysseus does not expose who he is and sees the how the stress of his life and his wife has aged him. They begin talking about Odysseus and this makes Odysseus’ father cry. Unable to hide himself as his father weeps over him Odysseus reveals himself, shows Odysseus’ father his scar and reminds him of the fruit trees he gave him as a child. They embrace as a metaphor of the unity of the old living good forefathers to the paradigm of heroism Odysseus represents and the paradigm itself. Odysseus’ father cries as a good person and father would showing his softer truly human side and virtue, the fact he got stressed over his son and wife’s life proves how virtuous he was. This is the Greece of the old good enough and virtuous enough to survive the transition of the order of their being, a new world order in Greece based on this new paradigm of heroism that now encompasses both the children and progeny of heroes like Odysseus and the forefathers or parents of said heroes. Servants and nobles equally considered family as old, middle aged and young become a larger peaceful family. When such virtue of the type we practice becomes the naturalised order of things a new world order of peace will prevail, I think the cultural decade that began in 2004 ( 60s start 64 with beetles, 70s in 73 black Sabbath, 80's in 83 with metallic, 90s in 94 alternative bands like offspring, nine inch nails, 2004 with bands like finger eleven and disturbed) I prefer to live in a better world order than even what we have seen thus far, see the term makes sense and is not evil or conspiratorial beyond intelligent people trying to create a better world and way it works, its order.

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