Editing The Sublime (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Understanding</span> ==
The sublime is understood through '''Scale''' and '''Safety'''.

'''1. "Smallness" in the Face of "Greatness" (Mathematical)''':
When you look at a "Full Night Sky," you feel "Small."
* Your "Eyes" can't "See" the whole universe.
* Your "Mind" can't "Calculate" the distance.
* This "Failure of the Senses" is the **Sublime**.
* Paradoxically, because you can "Think about Infinity," you feel "Greater" than the universe you are looking at.

'''2. "Safe Terror" (Burke's Delight)''':
Why do we "Pay Money" to see "Scary Movies" or go on "Roller Coasters"?
* Burke argued that "Pain" and "Danger" are the "Strongest Emotions."
* If we are **Actually** in danger, we feel "Fear."
* But if we are **Safe** (looking at a painting of a storm), we feel the "Sublime."
* It is a "Stretching of the Soul" that makes us feel "Alive."

'''3. The "Un-representable" (Kant)''':
A "Beautiful Flower" has a "Shape."
* The "Sublime Ocean" has "No Shape"—it just "Is."
* The Sublime happens when "Nature" is "Too Big" for our "Categories" to hold.
* It is the "Static" or "Glitch" in our "Mental Processing" that points to something "Divine" or "Infinite."

'''The 'Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog' (1818)'''': Caspar David Friedrich’s painting is the "Poster" for the sublime. A man stands on a peak, looking at a "Chaos of clouds." He is "Frail" (human), but he is "Master" of the view (mind). It shows the "Modern" version of the sublime: the "Individual" facing the "Infinite."
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