Still, and consistently
You say it's broccoli. I say it's spinach and the hell with it. [Thurber? I think]
Evidence that this deconstruction begs the point? ... every incident where someone -in the Instant- risks life to (grab a jumper off a bridge, say - where the rescuer would have gone over too, if someone behind him hadn't grabbed *his* legs! In one case I recall.)
Staying with the Ex: this was a young person with family yada yada. Reduce this to some cockamamie idea of "getting the best bugs from grooming" or "helping the local gene pool" -- and I say, Academia + Boolean-speak. And this jaundiced, myopic angle is behind Mr. John Dewey, Pavlov and the other mechanicalists, who imagine that homo-sap *can* be modelled, packaged, sold-to and ultimately "figured out". Like the jury rehearsals with transistors to see which OJ-line will score.. This-all is about the LCD of stimulus/response. Were that the whole package - there would be no such thing as Awareness. (The fact that some can live a long time without that, too.. is only another description of 'poverty')
But at base my disagreement with this kind of 'analysis' is on another scale: the metaphysical. Denial of the existence of this 'scale' (or of scale itself!) - is a self-predictable choice: from a lower scale. One might call this lower scale, impoverished, but other words might do as well ;-)
So logic just won't be enough. Y'know?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments
Love is not love which alters where it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove
O no, it is an ever fixed mark which looks upon tempests and is unmoved
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Where's the logic in That?
Ashton
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