What makes a thinker's task even harder is that he must say what he wants to the most by never saying it directly. It is a disability our use of language and the metaphorical-conceptual system acquired through its cultural implications given us. Every thinker -when not speaking in the strictest of scientific terms or introducing new and unfamiliar metaphors - must leave the original thought alone and touch only the ones standing next to it thus preserving its essence.
How "Thinking" progresses is by altering what was previously believed to be self evident, virtuous, the good, the truth. And any attempt to overthrow it, to even make the mildest suggestion against it gives the opportunity to wake up the "might is right " cow. It provides an opportunity to shake heads with the herd- to feel better by feeling belonged to something, anything.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
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