http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivXnIajTniQ

Jack lays out some of his radical hermeneutics of not-knowing; his diagnosis of our being possessed by largely inchoate desires for the Impossibles (Justice, Peace, Democracy, etc), and his Yankee pragmatist’s plea for a phenomenological (not ontological/meta-physical) approach to such matters, for us to come to terms with the all-too-human umwelten that our ethics are without foundations, our faith-commitments (religious or otherwise) are groundless (if not unhinged).
Jack wants us to try and leave our selves, and our machinations, open to such in-comings/event-ualities, such calls from the utopian future, and I have given much of my life to fleshing out such enthusiasms, but now I’m experimenting with letting them be.