THOREAU AND MUNGER (10-05-2026)

("Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows. Doesn't matter. And some people recover, and others don't.”)

 — Charlie Munger

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomenon to the preservation of Moral & intellectual health. 

The discipline of the schools or of business—can never impart such serenity to the mind.

May 6, 1851

He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life. If these gates of golden willows affect me, they correspond to the beauty and promise of some experience on which I am entering. If I am overflowing with life, am rich in experience for which I lack expression, then nature will be my language full of poetry — all nature will fable, and every natural phenomenon be a myth. 

The man of science, who is not seeking for expression but for a fact to be expressed merely, studies nature as a dead language. I pray for such inward experience as will make nature significant.

May 10, 1853

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.

—Walden

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

If you mean by hard times, times not when there is no bread, but when there is no cake, I have no sympathy with you.

—Journal, 28 January 1852 

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.

—"Life without Principle" 

Love your life, poor as it is.

—Walden

 The rich man . . . is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.

—"Resistance to Civil Government"

You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to posses the wealth of a day.

—"Life without Principle" 

 

DEL ZENIT AL NADIR (EL PRIMER CAMINO)

 

 

En la gran noche del pecado, cuando los malos espíritus volaban sin tregua en torno de los hombres, el sendero de la belleza ya partía, como un zodiaco divino, la bóveda oscura y sin luceros. Es el primer camino que se abrió en la conciencia, es anterior a toda razón ética, porque desde el nacer los ojos de las criaturas fueron divinizados en la luz, y el logos generador fue Numen.

Valle-Inclán 

Mirar atrás con el dolor de haber vivido, es pasar bajo el arco de la muerte.

Al pasar bajo el arco de la eternidad, en la suprema comprensión de nuestra vida mortal está el premio y está el castigo. 

ES CASI NADA (2-05-2026, (III))

 

Los rostros son lo más interesante de las cosas que vemos; las personas me fascinan y el aspecto más interesante de las personas, el punto en el que nos adentramos en ellas es el rostro.Lo dice todo.

DH 

 (AZ, Dos ciudades, traducción de J. Slawomirski y A. Rubió; página 206)

La muerte aparece en el horizonte.El universo interior, que se cree inmortal, se estremece de alegría...

La poesía se esfuerza por engañar a la realidad; finge preocuparse por su pesares. Menea compasivamente la cabeza. Ay, otro terremoto-dice-.Oh, una nueva injusticia.Otra inundación, otra revolución.Otra vez alguien ha envejecido. 

La poesía teme que su secreto se descubra.Un día, la realidad se percatará de que el corazón de la poesía está frío. O que la poesía no tiene corazón, sino unos ojos enormes y un oído muy fino. De pronto, la realidad comprenderá que no ha sido para la poesía más que un pozo inagotable de metáforas, y se esfumará.La poesía se quedará sola en el mundo, muda, vacía, triste e intransmisible. 

 

LOS PAPELES DEL HUÉRFANO (III): "CAMILLE DONCIEUX SUR SON LIT DU MORT"-LENTE ME 

PARA ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, (11-08-2016+ "VERDADERA VIDA"; "ALS ICH CAN" (I): VIENTO Y MÚSICA)

 

Esos momentos cuando la música

recupera su dignidad;

¿es esto la vida?

Esas raras horas

cuando vence el amor;

¿es esto la vida?

AZ (traducción Xavier Farré) 

ES CASI NADA (26-04-2026, (II))

 

(Masacre en Corea, Pablo Picasso; 1951)

"Mi interpretación de la Masacre en Corea (1951) de Picasso trataba de la fotografía.Hice una versión en la época de la Primera Guerra del Golfo.Coloqué un fotógrafo en el centro para hacer ver que no era posible que estuviera allí.No hay ninguna fotografía como esa,y jamás la habrá.No hay fotos de ejércitos matando a mujeres y niños de manera premeditada"

DH 

(La masacre y los problemas de la representación, a partir de Picasso (acuarela en siete hojas de papel; David Hockney (2003))

 

Cada persona siente o sabe que tiene una experiencia única

Si usted puede amar con plenitud, en el sentido completo de la palabra, tendrá menos miedo

Las pinturas son textos que dicen mucho 

DH 

 

ES CASI NADA (25-04-2026 (I))

 

"EACH TIME, IT IS ALMOST NOTHING.BUT THAT "ALMOST NOTHING" SIGNIFIES EVERYTHING" 

Józef Czapski

Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this.

HDT 

23-04-1859

The universe will not wait to be explained.

HDT 

20-04-1840 

EL DIAGNÓSTICO Y EL PRONÓSTICO DE NUESTRO MUNDO HISTÓRICO (LOS NUEVOS LEVIATANES (I))

 

 

 Los nuevos Leviatanes

“A law may be conceived to be good, when it is for the benefit of the sovereign, though it be not necessary for the people; but it is not so.For the good of the sovereign and people, cannot be separated.It is weak sovereign, that has weak subjects; and a weak people, whose sovereign wanteh power to rule them at his will"

Hobbes (Leviathan, chapter 30) 

The metaverse is a projection of the human world, not a way out of it.

(JG, page 49) 

Instead of China becoming more like the west, the West has become more like China. In both, the ruling economic system is a version of state capitalism. In each, wealth is heavily concentrated in small groups with powerful political leverage. 

Both systems are variants of state capitalism, but the relations between capital and the state are reversed.

Only if China's leaders make major mistakes can the West hope to prevail.

That does not mean America will hand supremacy to China.India will not accept such an outcome, nor probably, will Japan. The upshot of the struggle for hegemony will be a world with no hegemonic power. 

The model for Xi’s proyect of total control is not Chinese but British. If anyone can be said to have originated the project of a surveillance society, it was Jeremy Bentham.

During the short post-Cold War era of globalization, a "rules based" global liberal order seemed to be in place, which some beleived would endure indefinitely.This supposed liberal order is now history ...Its passing has exposed the realities it concealed.

Renewable energy is a fossil fuel derivative.The transition to renewable energy in which so much has been invested in the West is a chimera.

 

 

Since I realised there are many people who have a weak memory, I made a better chart to help them.

1 - The oil shock hasn't hit yet, but it is about to
2 - Stocks will bottom when stimmies will be issued to the population to pay for higher oil prices

Feel free to bookmark https://t.co/0I8GgrBrel pic.twitter.com/PQ4HxoqueI

— JustDario 🏊‍♂️ (@DarioCpx) April 18, 2026

EL SHOCK DEL PETROGAS DE 2026 (RICHARD MEDHURST; LA DESCARBONIZACIÓN DEL PRÓJIMO)

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Restoring-Americas-Maritime-Dominance.pdf