Muriel wrote:Tycho,
I read your first post, then Kysse's first questions then your response to them then I re-read your first post, the most important post.
Then I wondered about Cain and his descendants and saw a hint that you have not said it all. You wanted someone to join the dots as it were, as it always is.
So c'mon, tell us, go on! All of it.
Cain and his descendants. The wandering. My wandering. Cain's psychology and actions comparing and contrasting with my psychology. The similarity is great, but it goes further into identity. Fragmented identity.
The tower of Babel, is a tower of the fragmented, and the attempts to build a whole fail naturally into more fragmentation.
I see human psychology described in this story. It's structure is revealed, and it's present and future described. Look at how it operates: each wants to make a name for himself, each wants to build a tower that will reach to God, who has all the answers.
Question: if building the tower leads to satiety, isn't it then also the ultimate answer? Meaning that Cain had the perfect or ultimate psychology. But that wasn't the case. So?
This implies that though twisted, Cain's psychology gravitated towards God's. Hence the tower. That is, either way, Man is building a tower.
But the psychology is wanting. It's fragmented and alienated from itself. The tower can't be finished. Hence the wandering.
The question was how to undo the psychology; for it's the only way out.