Sacred Monsters

Nemam pojma kako se ovo prevodi, svaka čast talentima, "Sveti Monstrumi" mi tesko, kao da "monstrum" monstruoznije zvuci na srpskom nego na engleskom.

U modernom baletu pod istim imenom igraju Sylvije Guillem i Akram Khan, ko god se setio svaka mu čast, tesko da je mogao bolje da se seti i prilepi uz lik Sylvije Guillem - neverovatna žena.

Povod za blog su mi ti "monstrumi" (neverovanta je hipnotička moć te mračne strane - gledam kako mi posle par rečenica ono "sveti" već polako i podsvesno ispada iz idioma), ne Sylvija, iako nam balet donosi dva "sveta monstruma" ("monstruma", da skratim), pa tako i definicija postaje lakša:

- Akademska perfekcija
- Radoznalost i strast za istraživanjem

I trećeg "monstruma" pozajmljujem od drugih, od I. Berlina:
- Sloboda. Iz zbirke predavanja "Freedom and its Betrayal - Six Enemies of Human Liberty" verbatim, bez neke pažnje i poštovanja prema kontekstu (prosečan esej preko 20 stranica):

1. Helvetius - "We, the enlightened reformers, must not try to convert people by reasoning, because their reason is not powerful enough, in conditions of today, owing to the dreadful misgovernment of the past, to understand  what it is that we tell them".

2. Rousseau, "koji nije rekao ništa novo ali je zapalio sve na šta je naišao" - "Well now, we cannot have total liberty, because that will lead to anarchy an chaos, we cannot have complete authority, because that will lead to the total curshing of individuals, despotism and tyranny; therefore we must draw the line somewhere between, arrange a compromise..................man is trully free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires..."

3. Fichte - "Man becomes man only among other man....Man is destined to live in society; he must do so; he is not complete human being, he contradicts his own nature, if he lives in isolation.............What we need is a leader; what we need is a man to mould us".

4. Hegel - "... the Emperor - that world soul - I saw him ride through the town...It is realy an odd feeling to see such a personality physically concentrated in a unique point of space, seated on horseback, while his imperious thought roams and radiates over the entire world...".

5. Saint-Simon - "... this is the way in which an army marches, and we are an army, the whole of history is an army..."

6. Maistre - "...man is born to love...Whence comes his divine fury? Is it the earth calling for blood..."

Ono što je meni interesantno, verovatno i deo definicije, kod sacred monsters je da su to tačke na potencijalima sa kojima ne možemo da se izjednačimo. Naših 5 godina na ETF-u je počinjalo sa 5 sekundi lekcijom da između dve tačke na različitim potencijalima, ako ih spojimo, nešto poteče. I teče dok se potencijali ne izjednače.

Nemam pojma koji bi mi monstrum bio četvrti, ili peti, i prva tri sam prepisao, ali osećam ih in the force.