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Posted May 28, 2004 12:52 AM
so spurious goes offline and its time for an ill equipped and mildly drunken undergraduate to take the torch.
add to this i'm html iliterate so must resort to a guestbook- this seems like as good a place as any... hell nobody reads it...
why?
it underpins every discourse, it is a response to anything, yet it has no interiority- its a sonic atom, a singular basic unit. It is as infuriating as the socratic method, yet in its false inanimated modesty we are all thrasymachae. ultimately, it reduces every argument and standpoint to a cloud of ungrounded beliefs....even socrates himself objected to its blank expression and unyielding assertiveness.
and they're going to give me a qualification for my time spent following this obscure method to its intangible roots. Even primary children realise this, and apply it to astonishing effect.'but why...' 'because...' 'but why?' who other than a Zen master or the most entirely apathetic could have no desire to delve any deeper, or perhaps believe there was nothing deeper than a mere
'because'
how have we unlearned it? now theres a question. of course the child only affirms, does not bother to question.
The why is disenchantment. who gave rationality the authority that brought it to prominence? the rational! what was so unbearable about personality that the academic prophets had to kill magic?
and all the myriad phenomena must necessarily have been caused.
progress now must begin with regress. We must unlearn the concept of non-contradiction...
i'm twenty one and growing more precocious by the day, so i will dedicate myself to answering why, anyone younger wont care, anyone older will only want more and more solid arguments... im trapped then until i can learn to melt this overwhelming academic magma.
perhaps i can appeal to relativity (theory of)- that seems irrational enough.
maybe even my girlfriend... so long as she doesn't read this.
(understand my sentiments and you'll understand that her intermittent abherations of reason are why i love her)
imagine if chan marshall spoke literally!
already this is enough and too much. This is a rant for everyone and no-one. especially me.
tomasz where are you? im sobering up.
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