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Dion Workman / Michael Haleta Great historical figures, heroes, great men of
war no less than artists shelter themselves from death in this way: they
enter the memories of people... This form of individualism soon ceases
to be satisfying. It soon becomes clear that if what is important is primarily
the process which is history—action in the world, the common striving
toward truth—it is vain to want to remain oneself above and beyond
one's disappearance, vain to desire immutable stability in a work which
would dominate time. This is vain and, moreover, the opposite of what
one wants, which is not to subsist in the leisurely eternity of idols,
but to change, to disappear in order to cooperate in the universal transformation:
to act anonymously and not to be a pure, idle name. From this perspective,
creators' dreams of living on through their works appear not only small-minded
but mistaken, and any true action, accomplished anonymously in the world
and for the sake of the world's ultimate perfection, seems to affirm a
triumph over death that is more rigorous, more certain. Dion Workman Michael Haleta
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