Cheryl S

Ever since the enlightenment, western philosophers have shown us a nature that is grand and universal but also passive and mechanical. Nature was a backdrop and resource for the moral intentionality of man, which could take and master nature. It was left to fabulists, including non western and non civilizational storytellers, to remind us of the

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value. I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists.’ The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest).