Saturday, February 14, 2026

There Is Only to Continue Meditation, to Gloss, Preserve

Thanks, I hate it!  All the AI slop people are throwing up reminds me of venerable Jorge:

[O]f our work, the work of our order and in particular the work of this monastery, a part—indeed, the substance—is study, and the preservation of knowledge. Preservation of, I say, not search for, because the property of knowledge, as a divine thing, is that it is complete and has been defined since the beginning, in the perfection of the Word which expresses itself to itself. 

Preservation, I say, and not search, because it is a property of knowledge, as a human thing, that it has been defined and completed over the course of the centuries, from the preaching of the prophets to the interpretation of the fathers of the church. There is no progress, no revolution of ages, in the history of knowledge, but at most a continuous and sublime recapitulation. 

These people are just rehashing stuff, not creating anything novel or illuminating.  It's not revolutionary, but rather merely nostalgic, derivative conservativism.

Selah.


Update: I wish I were a blind monk sometimes.

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