{"id":69680,"date":"2026-11-09T05:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=69680"},"modified":"2026-11-09T05:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:44:26","slug":"questioning-dichotomies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=69680","title":{"rendered":"Questioning Dichotomies."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be prepared for a lot of <em>all over the map <\/em>musings today, started by my thinking about the beauty of nature after a walk through the glorious fall leaves. In the middle of a city, no less, during a season where nature seems to dominate the man-made surround from all sides, above and below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9080.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69710\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7499961852445258;width:833px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9080.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9080.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9080.jpg?resize=560%2C747&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9080.jpg?resize=80%2C107&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9080.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9083.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69711\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7499961852445258;width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9083.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9083.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9083.jpg?resize=560%2C747&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9083.jpg?resize=80%2C107&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9083.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two things came to mind: is it ok to have a conversation about leaves at a time where so many other topics eagerly await our attention? After all, this is what Bertolt Brecht, one of my favorite writers, advised in his poem &#8220;to those who follow in our wake&#8221;: &#8220;<em>What times are these, in which a conversation about trees is almost a crime<\/em> <em>for in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!<\/em>&#8221; (Below is a great translation by Scott Horton of this poem written in Danish exile in 1935-1938, which can be found, with annotations, <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/2008\/01\/brecht-to-those-who-follow-in-our-wake\/?shem=aimgspe,\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I<br>Truly, I live in dark times!<br>An artless word is foolish. A smooth forehead<br>Points to insensitivity. He who laughs<br>Has not yet received<br>The terrible&nbsp;news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What times are these, in which<br>A conversation about trees is almost a crime<br>For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!<br>And he who walks quietly across the street,<br>Passes out of the reach of his friends<br>Who are in&nbsp;danger?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is true: I work for a living<br>But, believe me, that is a coincidence. Nothing<br>That I do gives me the right to eat my fill.<br>By chance I have been spared. (If my luck does not hold,<br>I am&nbsp;lost.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad to be among the haves!<br>But how can I eat and drink<br>When I take what I eat from the starving<br>And those who thirst do not have my glass of water?<br>And yet I eat and&nbsp;drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would happily be wise.<br>The old books teach us what wisdom is:<br>To retreat from the strife of the world<br>To live out the brief time that is your lot<br>Without fear<br>To make your way without violence<br>To repay evil with good \u2014<br>The wise do not seek to satisfy their desires,<br>But to forget them.<br>But I cannot heed this:<br>Truly I live in dark&nbsp;times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came into the cities in a time of disorder<br>As hunger reigned.<br>I came among men in a time of turmoil<br>And I rose up with them.<br>And so passed<br>The time given to me on&nbsp;earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ate my food between slaughters.<br>I laid down to sleep among murderers.<br>I tended to love with abandon.<br>I looked upon nature with impatience.<br>And so passed<br>The time given to me on&nbsp;earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my time streets led into a swamp.<br>My language betrayed me to the slaughterer.<br>There was little I could do. But without me<br>The rulers sat more securely, or so I hoped.<br>And so passed<br>The time given to me on&nbsp;earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The powers were so limited. The goal<br>Lay far in the distance<br>It could clearly be seen although even I<br>Could hardly hope to reach it.<br>And so passed<br>The time given to me on&nbsp;earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">III<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You, who shall resurface following the flood<br>In which we have perished,<br>Contemplate \u2014<br>When you speak of our weaknesses,<br>Also the dark time<br>That you have&nbsp;escaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For we went forth, changing our country more frequently than our shoes<br>Through the class warfare, despairing<br>That there was only injustice and no&nbsp;outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet we knew:<br>Even the hatred of squalor<br>Distorts one\u2019s features.<br>Even anger against injustice<br>Makes the voice grow hoarse. We<br>Who wished to lay the foundation for gentleness<br>Could not ourselves be&nbsp;gentle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you, when at last the time comes<br>That man can aid his fellow man,<br>Should think upon us<br>With leniency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<strong>Bertolt Brecht<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>An die Nachgeborenen<\/em>&nbsp;first published in&nbsp;<em>Svendborger Gedichte<\/em>(1939) in:&nbsp;<em>Gesammelte Werke<\/em>, vol. 4, pp. 722-25 (1967)(S.H.&nbsp;transl.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8870_1.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8870_1.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8870_1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8870_1.jpg?resize=560%2C747&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8870_1.jpg?resize=80%2C107&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8870_1.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided in favor of talking about nature, regardless. Partly because I am still grappling with one of the most interesting things I picked up last week. The French philosopher \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/bruno-latour-showed-us-how-to-think-with-the-things-of-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruno Latour<\/a> argues that <em>\u2018nature\u2019 can\u2019t exist in isolation, but only in relation to the \u2018artificial\u2019 or the \u2018human-made. In drawing a solid line between these two domains, we\u2019re making a moral judgment rather than an ontological one: nature as good, its opposite as bad. Thinking outside that binary, he suggests, means rethinking the world not only as something acted upon by human agents, but as populated by other beings with agency of their own.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/videos\/theres-nothing-inherently-good-in-the-natural-argues-bruno-latour\">Ref<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not sure I buy the premise that we like to think of nature as good and artificial as bad &#8211; there are cultural objects, &#8220;man-made&#8221; paintings or buildings, for example, that take my breath away just as the fall leaves surrounding me right now; there are natural manifestations like pandemics that are inherently horrid. But I am interested how the philosopher exposes a link, rather than  divide, between the two concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9092.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9092.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9092.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9092.jpg?resize=560%2C747&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9092.jpg?resize=80%2C107&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9092.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch how his argument unfolds in this 6 minute <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/videos\/theres-nothing-inherently-good-in-the-natural-argues-bruno-latour\">video<\/a> &#8211; with memorable footage by Barcelona-born, London-based filmmaker Gerard Ort\u00edn Castellv\u00ed. Latour suggests a clever solution allowing us to abandon the dichotomy: everything is artificial because everything is the result of agency of someone or something that produced the outcome. Everything has been &#8220;engineered&#8221; by life forms, some of it good, but not all of it good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(The video is one in a series of remarkable works dating back the last decade or so &#8211; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccb.org\/en\/w\/seasons\/a-vocabulary-for-the-future\">A Vocabulary for the Future<\/a><\/em> is a project out of Spain that grapples with the question of whether or not we have the words we need for thinking about the future. They ask: &#8220;Do they serve ideas and concepts of the past or must we create new ones the to name another possible world? Where will we find these words that have not yet been spoken?&#8221; Contributors are philosophers, cultural thinkers, sociologists, scientists, artists &#8211; you name it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think this through while your feet are shuffling through leaves on asphalt&#8230;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9076.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9076.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9076.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9076.jpg?resize=560%2C747&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9076.jpg?resize=80%2C107&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9076.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">***<br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confronted with arguments about unnecessary or even mistaken binaries &#8211; natural world\/artificial world &#8211; I was reminded of another claim around political binaries (I warned you, we are getting into the weeds today!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the remarkable U.S. midterm election outcome, a lot of people are wondering if the Democratic party needs to adjust to the more progressive forces that were so overwhelmingly elected, or if moderation is the call of the hour, as to not scare off a large part of the population. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/election-special\/everybody-moves-leftward\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">interview<\/a> with Daniel Schlozman, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins, provided a valuable reminder of how these questions pop up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9088.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9088.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9088.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9088.jpg?resize=560%2C747&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9088.jpg?resize=80%2C107&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9088.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What can the Democrats&#8217; majority accomplish? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>This majority is big enough that it\u2019s not dependent on the most conservative members of the caucus to pass things\u2014but it doesn\u2019t have anything like a veto-proof majority<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do we have pointers if the centrists or the progressives have more to offer for the future, or was either camp over\/underperforming? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>In February 2020, E. J. Dionne published a book that mostly went unnoticed\u2014because it was February 2020\u2014called&nbsp;Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country. The thesis was that progressives and moderates are not only stuck together in the Democratic Party, inside a two-party system that isn\u2019t going anywhere, but also that each bloc has qualities the other doesn\u2019t and can\u2019t have. Moderates have a special sauce when it comes to winning races in places that are hard to win. Progressives have a special sauce in that they have a long-term vision of where they want to take the country, and in identifying and instantiating core values\u2014real core values, not the fake, TED Talk kind.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Progressives are facing powerful incumbents, but they have also an ally: time. It was overwhelmingly the younger voters who pushed in progressives, readying for a change of guard. The older centrists in congress, both House and Senate, are so invariably believed to be linked into a corrupt system of spoils that there will be a push for change. One can only hope that internal party wrangling is not opening a venue for reactionary external forces to divide and conquer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More importantly, people who lived through an era of advancing fascism, knew that a withdrawal into passivity or compromising spells out disaster &#8211; just reread the poem at the beginning of this post. The hardships imposed by fighting, the way it changes you, deprives you, harms you in the process, are real. It is, however, the only option to secure a better world for the generations to come. What was true in 1939 is true in 2026 as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9087.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9087.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9087.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9087.jpg?resize=560%2C747&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9087.jpg?resize=80%2C107&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_9087.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YLtS-lheAiw\">Music<\/a> today: Ernst Busch sings Brecht, compositions by Eisler, Brecht himself reads the poem at the end of the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be prepared for a lot of all over the map musings today, started by my thinking about the beauty of nature after a walk through the glorious fall leaves. 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