Farmers Letters: Connecting Byung-Chul Han's "The Palliative Society" with Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

Friday, September 13, 2024

Connecting Byung-Chul Han's "The Palliative Society" with Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

"In 2012 about 56 million people dies throughout the world; 620k of them died due to human violence (war killed 120k people, and crime killed another 500k). In contrast, 800k committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder."

-Yuval Noah Harari, "Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow"

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Andrei Tarkovsky

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."