OP makes sense to me. It feels right, looking back on my own memories growing up and also watching kids grow up into the world. It seems like a certai...
I got the sense he was a deeply-damaged guy who was picking up the pieces.I didn't like his posts, but I was morbidly fascinated by his presence. It s...
addendum: the real-as-trauma model renamed 'wires' by phillip larkin The widest prairies have electric fences, For though old cattle know they must no...
My thought, against Lacan (who I'm annoyed with, because he set up shop in my head for a long time, starting in my late teens) is that trauma is two-p...
I've had a very similar experience, recently, in my case involving drinking after work to 'wind down.' Just as you say - I had a shift from commuting ...
But maybe, pace Bataille, having sex near your mother's corpse while wearing a mitre isn't a necessary prerequisite for rolling in the flowers. Even i...
Or make that Beijing, continued Sally coquettishly. I'm being earnest! Bob said earnestly. Ok, so let's say conceptual or language games take place wi...
It's clear in that case, but above we were reducing the information-transfer aspect of language by focusing on the game-like nature of actual fact-exc...
The rainbow metaphor is Schop. I'm saying he had recourse to the fluctuating emotional states of his readers when he deployed it. It works, its a good...
Snarkily : there are ways of looking at one's life that aren't centered, like room service, around how comfortable you are. Use it the wrong way and @...
Another way at this. (1)Replace 'conceptual schemes' with 'conceptual games' - various ways of knowing-how, rather than knowing-that. (2)Retain Davids...
Only laboring the point because I think you're right to offer a corrective to the idea of language as information transfer. But if it isnt also inform...
I mostly agree, and was hinting at something similar in my paragraph about the historian vs the studying-to-test-well student (tbf it was an edit so m...
Right but this transcendental root of suffering, if you like, says that there are guaranteed to be minus strokes. What makes these minus strokes minus...
That's a possible thing, but it's neither nor here nor there, since I'm not talking about a situation like that, but about people learning what date a...
But, with the structural perspective, you still have minus-strokes. Only now you have a conceptual apparatus that allows you to see them as contingent...
Perhaps, yeah. The correct title would be 'not *all of language* is moving information.' @"StreetlightX" already solved the problem in a very short po...
Not necessarily. I mean that if you're doing away with 'moving information from one head to another' then, though you've improved our understanding of...
@"Banno" Doesn't making language about what we do in this way leave us vulnerable to the maundering, marauding post-truth postmodernists? Is there no ...
I think I'm on the same page as both @"Baden" & @"fdrake". I liked the gills/cruise ship metaphor. I think its right to focus on its function rather t...
@"Wallows" OP is veering toward r/iamverysmart territory. It's good to acknowledge strengths, including intellect - but be wary of fetishizing any att...
Like Duchamp's fountain and all the stuff the came after, esp conceptual art. Art that's less about the artwork itself than how it makes you think abo...
Sometimes, too, art is just about the act of creation itself, and its effects on the audience/viewer are of secondary concern. Think of playing with t...
You gotta do you. I certainly didn't intend to try to pull you away from something personally meaningful, something which draws you toward it. I respe...
Alright, got you. (By the way, my first, gut, reaction to your prose was that it sounded a little like legalese, rather than any particular author.) I...
if I read you correctly, you're objecting to the charge of imitating past authors with the defense that you simply favor a similar prose style. Bolste...
Right, but what are you saying to me? ( I'm pretty sure I understand now what you're saying but --) Just say it! It's ok if it's simple in plain langu...
recap of last post: ---The recognition of simply being fake is based on a falsehood, and so has uncertain worth. To make sure that one seems different...
ha, closer! But for real just imagine you're talking to your friends, or even yourself, and no one cares (no one does, alas) and just say what you wan...
@"Vessuvius" I like polished classical prose as much as the next guy, but it seems like the prose style you favor is cramping you here. As others have...
@"Wallows" Sorry you're going through that. I've been there a few times, it sucks. I think fdrake has the right approach, in terms of looking at what ...
I'll admit I don't know much about the history of Eugenics (or the period from 1870-1920 in general.) But... the pharaoh let Moses and his people go a...
That sounds right. If your post is supposed to be a standalone exercise in standalone ethical questions, then I'm out of line. I'll leave you to the s...
I've been having a philosophical conversation with you. But it seems like nothing registers as 'philosophical' until that person either agrees with yo...
To play devil's advocate, Roman society rewarded - and cultivated - ambition and determination. Rewarded it with wealth and power. And it worked! for ...
No worries at all, I'm usually having a mood myself. My feeling is that, you're right, social darwinism and freudianism have a lot of mechanistic qual...
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