Elementor #7

Quote from philosopher Timothy Morton: “For the beauty experience is precisely that phenomenon in which I find it impossible to tell who started it: was it me or was it the thing? Yet Kant concludes that this secretly means, we (the subject) started it. That means that I’m not especially different from other things, such as crickets and even cricket bats. But it also means that crickets and cricket bats are kind of special in the way I think I myself am, as a person. It means therefore that cricket bats might be a little bit ‘alive’ in some way, and crickets (and maybe the bats too) might be ‘people’ in some way. Crazy right? No wonder you’re not allowed to say this out loud in a university cafeteria.”