{"id":167,"date":"2026-06-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/?p=167"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:51:34","slug":"george-bakola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.provocations.online\/practices-of-study\/george-bakola\/","title":{"rendered":"George Bakola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cOpaque is the fact that it refuses to reveal itself, for reasons that determine the structure and dramaturgy of existence. We are one story among the millions of stories that life narrates to an audience that may one day be revealed to us. Whether the Earth is a farm producing images or not is itself another possible narrative devised by a dramatist who lives through the ingenuity of his storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a civilization, we are on a completely wrong and shameful path of inquiry\u2014not because we could not do otherwise, but perhaps because we ourselves are also nourishment for our desires. A people with the \u2018stomach\u2019 of the Earth are condemned to eternal crushing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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