GENIUS FORUMS

Pye wrote : The sometimes incredible generosity of men in the sexual exchange hides the same pathology of power that Alex is trying to be honest about here. I have an interesting little book by Dwight Bolinger called 'Language: The Loaded Weapon: The Use and Abuse of Language Today'. Your sentence ...

Laird wrote : I don't find you to be particularly guilty of that type of imposition in your personal interactions, but it comes along for the ride when you set up a vision of superior versus mediocre, which easily becomes 'those who know best' versus 'those who need to be led'. In fact your choice ...

Pye writes : But Alex, this is exactly the crust I'm talking about - crust built up around a valuable thing and assumed withheld from others, these 'untouchable' fruits. You certainly have the right to speak about whatever you see and feel and think, but less about what I think and feel and see, in...

Quite okay. I don't have a problem with that word as I define it! But your use of it follows your own definitions, and the background of them. I am fairly certain that I 'resist' your use of the term and qualify my own. So, should I restate what I mean by paternalism?

Laird wrote : "Perhaps this doesn't matter to you, perhaps because you don't know how it feels and the possible consequences of such an attitude. I do know how it feels due to my experiences as an involuntary psychiatric patient, where a paternalistic system deems to know better than I do what...

Dennis wrote : "I've lived in impoverished and patriarchal countries, India and Vietnam, and being rich by contrast have felt the seductive lure of thinking I was elite and special and could take advantage. That kind of intellectual and emotional dishonesty is abhorrent." I too immediatel...

Pye: I am sure there is an elitism that is that and does that. But there is also an elitism that knows, sees, holds and expresses things that few manage to touch. Conversely, there is a 'populism', a vulgar commonality, that never reaches and knows or understands much of anything, but assumes it doe...

John? Dennis?

You can gesture at them till you dislocate your jaws and your wrists and still they will not have understood you and will never understand.

From Franz Kafka's story An Old Manuscript : "Speech with the nomads is impossible. They do not know our language; indeed they hardly have a language of their own. They communicate with each other much as jackdaws do. A screeching of jackdaws is always in our ears. Our way of living and our ins...

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Without words.

Diebert wrote : We are all mimicking in a mirror but more specifically I'm looking for a way to defend the age I'm living in and I'm working with it, looking for its fruits and directions. And if it's a defense then it's a defense against the elitist rather backward looking cultural philosophy you ...

there is something really profound in what you said there

astonishing

:::humble bows:::

Have I pleased or displeased you, Master? The wise words you dispensed make sense Line after line provide a sign Give up my wits and leave behind the bits. Dennis and John were my teachers all along! Blind to the real teaching stuff I stuck with unproductive fluff. Home now with the GF Truth my form...

Hello Laird. As I have recently declared, I am right on the verge of giving up my mind and becoming witless. It is surprisingly easy once you get into the hang of it, but it does help to have good teachers too. And I've got two of the best who will be helping me squeeze through the eye of the needle...

I can't thank you enough for taking the time to help me out. Don't give up on me. I'll get there by and by! But despite appearances, and in the spirit of wanting to humble myself and be helpful, I really think that Diebert needs your help more. It's just that he can't ask for help. A pride thing I s...

Think nothing of it! And what I also wanted to add, for you, is that I am aware that no conversation is or was ever possible when it comes to you, your positions, your views. You have a similar advantage to the one John is working out: it is the absolute and ultimate arbiter's position. Everything i...

Seeker: "There is really no way to get through to you nor it would seem to any of those who adopt these modes of seeing and relating. It is a sort of disease of thinking, an infection, a fire on the brain and a delirium, but one where those possessed are CONVINCED they have got hold of somethin...

This is the point, Diebert, where you take a step away from 'genuine communication' and a class of conversation which might be fruitful and at least interesting, and go in another direction. The statements you are making, I see now, are less about me and more about yourself. I hadn't seen that befor...

Sphere70, I have not read Delillo but I did find a PDF with a rather hard to read version of White Noise. I'll have to look into it. I found these excerpts on some blogs which I liked, though it is hard to grasp the novelistic context: "There's a theory about déjà vu." "I don't want t...

Seeker writes : "It is a way of being, based on the wise interpretation of the way things are." There is really no way to get through to you nor it would seem to any of those who adopt these modes of seeing and relating. It is a sort of disease of thinking, an infection, a fire on the bra...

I bit from the poem 'As I ebbd with the ocean of life': O baffled, balk'd, bent to the very earth, Oppress'd with myself that I have dared to open my mouth, Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my arrog...

Allow me to clarify...and to press a point...dramatically, for effect. My endeavor pretty much has to do with discovering and rediscovering genuine meanings. If I *fight* against those ghost-demons that appear in my mental space when I read some of the ugliness that is tossed up on these pages---by ...

Diebert wrote : "This waxing creature has made his home, or some attempt at such, in the old age of appearances, somewhat represented by the 19th century. This in response to a certain contempt and revulsion to the age of meaning, called modernity and somewhat represented by the 20th century. ...

What did you have for breakfast today, Seeker? Describe what it was and how you prepared it.