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Right, Frank, pointing out that most folks whom we should be looking up to for answers seem to be “saying everything [we like to hear] but [actually] saying nothing [specific] at all.” According to the Book of Ecclesiastes, “watching the wind” and “striving after the wind” is none other than “the Vanity of Vanities.”
Dante agreed. In his Renaissance epic “The Divine Comedy” which featured the Inferno, the poet imagined an eternal relay race on the top layer of Hell, where the “neutrals and indecisive” who had no real beliefs and stood for nothing, run around forever “chasing the wind.”
Writer Paul Valery caricaturized that same theme in post-World War II Europe: “We never go to the bottom of anything…there is nothing more essentially morbid than to see things as they are… The universe’s terror of its own nothingness causes it to create and paint thousands of masks, to proliferate mortals raving and introducing into nature the principle of unlimited errors and mistakes, which give depth and animation to the world’s miserable mass. When truth sometimes shows itself, it sounds a discord into the harmonious system of vanities, phantasmagorias and errors, and everything is immediately threatened with being blown away…”
For perfect illustrations of that sort of thing, check out the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock who prided himself in ” lines that have no inside or outside. They are free to roam through virtual time and space, unbound by having to represent any particular object or conform to any particular shape and figure.”
All this “windy” business leads to Easter Sunday ceremonies at the Vatican and the stunning blow-over of the ancient icon of the Holy Savior, the “Resurrexit.” Was the sudden gust of “papal” wind a true sign of divine wrath or (as we saw in the States) a pre-planned publicity stunt to neutralize and trivialize Christ as Redeemer on the highest of holy days?