23 July 2009, mkrause
All we know about Tesla’s youth is from his autobiography. To read “My Inventions”, written when he was over 60 years old, makes some fun, it is Tesla’s “Portrait of the electrician as a young man”. It focusses on remembrances and details of his personality: his mother Djouka he dearly loved; his father Milutin he somehow got along with; but always seeing Dane, his elder brother, in front of him, made him sick, literally. What could Tesla do? Why was Tesla so alienated to himself? He was so different to the world he lived in, he liked to escape from everything, his home, his family, he had no friends besides Macak the cat. Being in nature’s surroundings was the oly thing that made him happy. Tesla, the single. And another question: Why is there no photograph of Tesla as a baby, a boy, a teenager? Wouldn’t it be nice to have one of those?
10 July 2009, mkrause
Why didn’t Tesla succeed? He was the one who had the basic ideas for a society rich in resources AND spirit - at a time, when everything our modern society is based on was discoverd. There seems to be an answer hidden in this statement itself: In OUR system (our meanwhile post-modern society) nothing can survive that is based on something that could be called collective consciousness. Only the picture (or: the reception of this picture, the icon) has a value. In fact, it is the end of any value, that is the situation where we’re all in. Maybe Tesla did foresee it, but it’s doubtful. No one ever thought of a society like ours: cutting off the hands that feed us (nature). Tesla (and many others, IMAGINE!) thought in another direction; today, we can only be happy and thankful to have these thoughts. Will it “pay off”, in the end?
, mkrause
Tesla worked like any artist would do: he tried to connect. But not as maybe the actor who prepares and tries to connect to his inner being or the writer trying to let an image emerge of what he/she is going to write about. Maybe Tesla tried to hook up with the sea of energy we’re in. Tried to swim in it, dive and maybe sometimes surf on it! It’s this old dream of mankind, cutting through space, seeing matter emerge and forego, smelling the rubber of the speed of light … a more than wonderful dream on Tesla’s 153rd birthday.
