Why Gardenworld.
# 4019
Without a vision,the people are lost. Old Testament
“The spirit of playfulness that marked many of the dialogues, those moments where Plato appeared astonished at his own boldness, and, at the opposite extreme, those passages brooding with disillusion—none of these moods displaced his basic conviction that men could effect a junction between truth and practice. Towards the end of his life, he did despair of seeing the ideal polity take hold in an actual society, yet he still insisted that there could be no marked improvement in existing polities unless men had an ideal pattern at which to aim.
Excerpt From: Wolin, Sheldon S.; Brown, Wendy;. “Politics and Vision.”
I tend to think I can relate, and identify, with Plato's excitement at his self-discovered boldness in bridging the pure and the applied (the truth and practice) of life.
But I feel awash in the warm and unpleasant waters at the swamp-edge of this present world where everyone seems to be offering their own version of some ideal pattern for which we should aim.
I may be sharing an end-of-life moment with the Creator of Forms and, for this, I am glad.