Notes from November: On Morality

The search for a path through life

Photo: Phragmites, an invasive but now ubiquitous marsh grass. Piermont Pier, Nov. 2023.

Phragmites is an invasive grass monoculture that grows wholly at the expense of native grasses. So is everyone’s lawn. It’s a strange fact that folks who argue we should eradicate invasive species openly plant lawns and mow and otherwise care for them without so much as a thought to the much greater destruction they bring to our environment.

Notes from Nov. 27. Morality.

A friend remarked on Saturday night that Gurdjieff said, if a human being is not aware — if we are asleep, and unconscious — that good and evil do not exist. That there is no morality.

Yet we can see quite clearly that this isn't entirely true; like everything Gurdjieff said, there are layers in it, and to take it at face value is to fail to undertake the critical analysis, the effort to see, that he called us to.