Yourself?

Taking care of yourself.

Quote:

In a dialogue written at the end of the second century after death, Lucien presents us a certain Helmuttimus who walks mumbling in the street. One of his friend, Seamus, sees him, crosses the street and asks him, "What are you mumbling about."

And the answer comes, "I am trying to remember what I have to tell to my master and through the conversation between those two, we learn that Helmuttimus has been visiting his master for nearly 20 years, but has been nearly ruined by the very high cost of those precious lessons. And we learn that Helmuttimus may need 20 years more to arrive at the end of his training.

But we learn also what those lessons are about. Helmuttimus is taught by his master, how to take care of himself in the best possible way.

I am sure that none of you is a modern Helmuttimus. But I hold the bet that most of you have met at least one of those guys who nowadays regularly visit a kind of master who takes their money from them in order to teach them how to take care of themselves.

But, fortunately enough, I've forgotten the name of those modern masters in antiquity, they were cold philosophers.

UC Berkley Lectures - Michel Foucault

posted by Downhere. @ 11:16 pm