{"id":65752,"date":"2019-11-19T21:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65752"},"modified":"2023-06-14T07:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T04:49:53","slug":"prophets-of-today-leonard-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/prophets-of-today-leonard-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophets of Today: Leonard Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ring the bells that still can ring<\/span>
\n<\/span>Forget your perfect offering<\/span><\/p>\n

This call of Leonard Cohen to the human race addresses the deep, multi-dimensional crisis of today\u2019s values that drive the human experience, both collective and individual. We live in an age where imagined \u2018optimal\u2019 impossible-to-reach standards set the tone in all areas of our lives, as objectives to reach, if we are to be good.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is true for employees, managers and workers, doctors and policemen, the parents among us, the children among us, partners. Our role in society, our bodies, everything is measured by the optimum, as if it were a possible, accessible human goal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it is not.<\/span><\/p>\n

These imagined objectives sentence us all to chronic dissatisfaction, perpetual frustration with\u00a0 ourselves, and those around us. This is a dissatisfaction that motivates us to act, generally in self-destructive ways. Dissatisfaction with our achievements at work will lead us to work more, sometimes beyond our limits, the limits of our resources. Dissatisfaction with our bodies can lead us to consume anything that can \u201cimprove\u201d us, and move us toward that unattainable model of fitness or glamour, guaranteeing continual restless movement. Dissatisfaction is the economic engine that drives us all for the sake of consumption and growth, and shapes our lives and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not only in the meaning and the experience of our personal lives that this chronic dissatisfaction leaves its mark, but also in our ability to give something back to our environment, to be good people, and not to give ourselves over, and settle for being people of culture. Having tickets to the opera in a Louis Vitton bag doesn\u2019t make us cultured, if we have forgotten those who lower their gaze and hold out their hand at the entrance to the concert hall, and all the defeated ones among us, that have been forced to that wide, invisible periphery, in the mechanism of injustice that manufactured dissatisfaction has created for us.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are human beings, we were not intended to be perfect. If we continue to run, and to run, sure that we must achieve that which we are not destined for, we will miss out on, and ultimately trample, everything that makes this life worth living.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perfection is deficient; it is deficiency which is whole, because it reminds us of our nothingness, our modesty which enables us to see and to love others, to accept what is, to draw closer to truth, and to create out of nothingness instead of emptying ourselves out to the light of a counterfeit reality. Deficiency has a role. It is what charges us, as sons and daughters of the human tissue, it charges our lives with meaning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And thus Leonard Cohen continues his prophetic call, for us, for all of human society.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a crack in everything<\/span>
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