@bob_the_fisherman Said
Livestreams from multiple sources are not edited highlights. Do you know what a livestream is?
Goebbels to Hitler:- "I have a good idea mien Fuhrer"
Hitler:- "What is that Herman?"
Goebbels:- "Liveübertragung!"
Hitler:- "Liveübertragung"?
Goebbels:- "Yes Mein Fuhrer. Such will convince the gullible herd of our benign intent"
Hitler:- "How so Herman?"
Goebbels:- "We actually control time, place, and - knowing the cameras are rolling - can act and speak accordingly"
Hitler:- "This has promise, you have come up trumps again Herman"
Goebbels:- "Exactly mien Fuhrer. We can handpick the Brownshirts (sorry, Hans Fickt and of course, Heinrich Brut, will have to stand down, we can't have any of
that on camera) and head down to the Jewish Quarter for a speech. Hopefully we will strike lucky. Perhaps a Jew, his relatives incarcerated in Dachau and his business closed down, will throw a brick"
Hitler:- "If so, how should I react Herman?"
Goebbels:- "Reach down and take the brick in hand, speak of donating it to the Jewish Builders Union (most will forget no such things exist) to assist in the construction of Jewish Orphanages. By no means let spittle issue from your mouth when announcing this"
Hitler:-"What would I do without you Herman! And next.......? "
Goebbels:- "A peaceful walk to a local park, some book or other carried under your arm"
Hitler:- "Mein Kampf?"
Goebbels:- "Alas, no, mein Fuhrer. A great book indeed but to carry it now would risk Stalin thinking that you remain serious about expanding the Volk living space to the east and thus might well become suspicious when you offer him the Peace Pact. No, mein Fuhrer, safer with an edition of the Brothers Grimm. Whatever, there will sure to be a buxom frau with child somewhere in the park. An opportunity to pinch the cheek of the tiny das schatzchen and smile. Then, mein Fuhrer, find a dog............... "
Hitler:- "Enough! Enough! You convince me! But how can we pay for all this now that I have virtually bankrupted our country by spending on armaments?"
Goebbels:- "Simply raise once more the tax on Jewish possessions"
Hitler:- "I say again, what would I do without you Herman?"
Well, all good fun and games. I think we are about point F in our current dialectic, our quite possibly interminable conflict in reason and exchange of views.
But "Madhyamika does not oppose one thesis with another. It seeks the flaw both in thesis and in antithesis. It investigates the beginningless illusion that holds 'views' to be true in so far as they appeal to us and when they appeal to us we argue that they are not 'views' but absolute truth."
"Madhyamika is critical of thought, open to experience. It accepts the phenomenalization of the absolute and knows this as twofold. 1) Avidya: through ignorance and defilements. 2) Prajna: “the free conscious assumption of phenomenal forms activated by wisdom and compassion.”
(T.V.Murti, on the "Central Philosophy of Buddhism" )
And Merton adds:- Hence, not escape from the world into idealism, but the transformation of consciousness by a detached and compassionate acceptance of the empirical world in its interrelatedness.
To be part of this interrelatedness
(Merton's emphasis)