I thought Joni Mitchell’s folk song, “Clouds,”was the most powerful part of the Olympics opening. Surely such music reminds us again that people know in the depths of their being that there is something more in life.
Could people sing like this if we’re just a collection of cells, if we are only biological accidents?
It’s the sensucht thing.
“The experience is one of intense longing. It is distinguished from other longings by two things. In the first place, though the sense of want is acute and even painful, yet the mere wanting is felt to be somehow a delight.” See Pilgrim’s Regress, page 7.
