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Low life

A tale of bitter brotherly rivalry

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

For early humans there was no distinction between spirit and matter. There was no idea of self; no barrier between consciousness and the world. Eventually, evolving self-consciousness and thought put a barrier between the two. Object was irrecoverably divorced from subject. Or so I’ve read somewhere. Something like that anyway.

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