This would associately remind me once again of Noras talk about the Wagenlenker (Carriage driver of Delphi), I won't elaborate though now because in the near future I will have to curate a larger exhibition about the subject navigation. I will only remind that mythological stuff with Heraklit - so in the  Aeneis -, that the helmsman infact, appears. His name is Palinurus. Palinurus is that only capable helmsman who can sail with Aeneas in fact towards Rome in Italy where nobody knows the waters and with whose luck Aeneas sets out for the crazy plan of founding a world empire. But just bevor they end up in the abyss the helmsman leaves the ship. And Vergil offers 5 thesis. One of them is: Aeneas treated his that-time girlfriend whom he intended to marry that bad that Palinurus felt embarrassed to witness that such a guy then also should found a world empire. Nevertheless we hear through that the issue about steering and guiding  was determined always also in conection with the ship and the aim and that it is not at all as we actually think it is. This aim actually is also 'education'. Etymologically Erziehen (to educate) and zielen (to aim) they go directly together. There is a famous man, his name is Bazon Brock, who also once asked himself 'who actually educates the educators?' who are also authors, author-like and auto-operatively guided systems as well. (His passage of Gerlach's is a collection of words and 'loud' thoughts which are not easily translateable -  he takes the term "navigation" and traces it back to the Latin: navigatio and navigare, from 'navis' the ship and 'agere' to put into motion.) Then we would come to this: with which ship are we actually swimming on this narrow edge between reason and craziness? In arthistory the ship does have the following symblic meaning -

also religously - Noah's  arch as shelter for life and hope in anotherwise desolated world, so-to-say as symbol to become a member on this ship through which life can be rescued. This analogy we also know. It is still used nowadays for any sacred building witht he the terms central nave, cross and side aisle. The trip with the ship is then also often interpreted as the path of life. The helmsman depends on the protection, the mercy of god who sends him the right winds and protects him from bad weather. Question remains: where does it all lead? With this ship we have again a double occidental meaning: with the beautiful metaphor by Michèle Foucault of the Fool's Ship (stultifera navis), from which he also took the literal, philosophical and artistic reality since the 15th. century. Now the newest research knows that our imagionation was something wrong....- Foucault actually started of with having here now just exactly the fatale reign is documented which we have today in capitalism, because those that are different are put onto ships - without helmsman - to be gotten rid off by simply exposing them to wretched death, hence a kind of early KZ withouth helmsman. Psychoanalytical research has now found out that it  - the Fool's ship - is indeed a metaphor, because it was more so that earlier Mardi Gras and carnival commons were entitled to have people disguise themselves. Nevertheless I would like to stick to the thought of the Fool's ship which is looking for its aim: a ZIEL (=aim), middle high German ZIL, is clearly presumed here, a ZIEL (=aim) and ERREICHEN (=to reach, to get there) but also DAS BESTELLEN DES FELDES (=cultivation of the field) and SICH BEEILEN (= to hurry up). And it is etymologically connected with 'Lebensende' (end of life) and 'Tod' (death) and 'passend' (fitting).

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