The essence of risk is to let go, to be in wilderness. Loosing the grip. In german language a word is ein Begriff and to understand is zu begreifen. To have words is to be in controll. This is why word gives human an illution of controll.
To loosing the (be)grip is to risk losing something, but it is also to limit yourself. To risk is to open up to the surroundings, and at the same time to limit oneself.

Natality and entropy are the two forces of Fortuna. Entropy turns everything into dust and ashes. Natality is the birth of Phoenix coming out of the ashes. Both forces contains their own antagonist. To much natality will end as entropy. To much entropy will bring natality into life again. This is an ontology thinkers as Plato, Machiavelli, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger and Arendt agreed upon. This could end as a dangerous thought, but it may also be life giving.

To dwell on beauty
a late summer beer
sense the soft skin of perfume
tangling in the air

Tasting the light of leather
brings resonance in my mind
a sweet sensation of sugar
a feeling to never be found

That’s the beauty of living
that’s begging the feeling to stay
you gave me your lovely smile
a cosmic spark at the dusk of day

Cultural essentialism may be dangerous if it is not governed by a positive moral standard.

To quote Bourdieu: A substantial way of thinking is the mindset of common sense and racism: It treats activities or preferences typical of particular individuals or groups of a particular society at a particular time as substantial traits, enumerated once and for all in a kind of biological or (and it is not at all any better) cultural essence. (Bourdieu, 2002 p.5)

This cultural essence has little to do with common sense. Hannah Arendt would say it is a lack of common sense that removes the ethical sensation of being and constructs types of cultural essentialism.

At the same time Bourdieu opens the door for some other kind of existential essentialisme:

In fact, the basic idea is that in order to exist in a room, to be a point, an individual in a room, one must separate, be different – or according to the formula Émile Benveniste used in the language: “to be separate and to have meaning is the same thing ”(Bourdieu, 2002 p.11)

The more essential something is for the human being, the more difficult it is to measure it.

The essence of doing something proper is dwelling. To dwell is to be in the activity, or to be the activity. The dwelling is your life and your house. To dwell should not be hard work, but at the same time it is not easy to dwell. Dwelling is being part of Cosmos and at the same time doing something proper on the Earth. That is to be the barefoot bouncer.

Human are not morally responsible for the earth, the world or the humanity. Our moral sensibility are not defined to what we see or knows, but at the same time this moral sense must have a border. An unlimeted moral sense would slowly kill the human being from inside. The idea of controll, individuall or social, is a hybris. Human will never have controll over the world. The inherent moral of mankind is not a question of controll. We will always fall short. Our moral sense will always give human a feeling of guilt or inefficacy. The expectation of controll, mastery or responsibility increases these feelings into something unsustainable.

Metaphor is an expression of the language’s inability to express the sensations we have in the brain. It is a symbolic attempt to convey sensations that are beyond human consciousness. Metaphors are iconic acknowledgments of the unchanging. The clearest thoughts are often metaphors, unfortunately. A metaphor will never exist and be preserved, if its contents was not real. No one has used metaphors better than Plato, and no one has ever strived to free himself from this use, as Plato did.

There is nothing opposite of moderation. Moderation is the balance between emptiness and optimalitation, between failure and mastery, between destruction and creation or between setbacks and progress.

The school has become a place where we ignites the dream of mastery. The pure embracement of knowledge grounds a dangerous mindset of becoming masters of the earth. This mindset is the human hybris to create a perfect society on earth through constant progression. But some knowledge are lacking from this school. The history of Icaros are not being told, the cosmology of Hildegard von Bingen is not part of the frame, Machiavellies Fortuna has vanished and gone, the Aristotelian Form is no longer the quality of the earth, not to mention the Platonic henoism of truth, beauty and justice. The problem behind over-consumption, unrestrained growth and depletion of natural resources is grounded in purified mindset of schooling.