oh yes Tim, the English title is "You Must Change Your Life". And if you want to enjoy a thorough observation of Western post-modern culture I dare to recommend you this...
Reminds me of a quote from one of my favourite philosophers Peter Sloterdijk, who in one of his books "You must change your life", attempts to provide us with a strategy for existential meaning. The quote goes as follows (and replacing the word 'sport' with 'budo' here):
“Give up your attachment to the comfortable ways of life - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that the difference between perfect and imperfect does not leave you indifferent, show us that achievement - excellence, arete, virtue - has not remained a foreign word to you, admit that you have motives for new endeavours! Above all: give the presumption that sport is a pastime for the most stupid the space it deserves, do not misuse it as a pretext to drift further into your usual state of self-loathing, distrust the philistine in yourself who thinks you are fine the way you are! Hear the voice from the stone, don't resist the call to get in shape! Seize the opportunity to train with a god!”
oh yes Tim, the English title is "You Must Change Your Life". And if you want to enjoy a thorough observation of Western post-modern culture I dare to recommend you this...
I have just added it to my reading list. Thank you for that.
Reminds me of a quote from one of my favourite philosophers Peter Sloterdijk, who in one of his books "You must change your life", attempts to provide us with a strategy for existential meaning. The quote goes as follows (and replacing the word 'sport' with 'budo' here):
“Give up your attachment to the comfortable ways of life - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that the difference between perfect and imperfect does not leave you indifferent, show us that achievement - excellence, arete, virtue - has not remained a foreign word to you, admit that you have motives for new endeavours! Above all: give the presumption that sport is a pastime for the most stupid the space it deserves, do not misuse it as a pretext to drift further into your usual state of self-loathing, distrust the philistine in yourself who thinks you are fine the way you are! Hear the voice from the stone, don't resist the call to get in shape! Seize the opportunity to train with a god!”
Thank you for that, I must look up Peter Sloterdijk. I wonder if his stuff is available in English?