Wednesday, May 7, 2008

John Cage - on Why?

I feel very When one becomes concerned with causation, the ego is overreaching its remit; like taste and classification, causal thinking is an indirection of our experience. "This question of asking 'why'," proposes Cage, "is the same as asking which is the most or which is the best. They are very closely related questions that enable you to disconnect yourself from your experience, rather than to identify with it."