One needs to bring what one has learned from one’s ascent back into the world where life is going on, and incorporate it in such a way that it enriches experience and enables more of whatever it is that ‘discloses itself’ to us (in Heidegger’s phrase) to do just that. But it is still only on the ground that it will do so, not up in the air.
The destinction between the ascetic (complete, sublime detachment from reality) and the two extremes of the mundane (Totalitarian authoritarianism and apathetic nihilism). The latter two react constantly to the terrain, the former is incapable even of response.
lol. This sounds like the impotence of an omniscient god.
