SUO: Re: The Story So Far
Matthew West wrote:
>
> Dear Jon,
>
> > I promised myself then and there that I would never go humbly again --
> > that is to say, to so docily surrender my whole way of being and
> > living and thinking to whatever form of authoritarian dogma
> > that somebody judged was the right grade of pablum to be
> > parceling out to me at a given age and estimated station.
>
> And I will stand shoulder to shoulder with you.
>
> However, I don't detect this problem here.
> I detect here a respect for different viewpoints,
> and a desire to understand how they relate to each other.
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew
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Dear Matthew,
Yes, of course, that is every rational person's conscious attitude.
And I can tell that my badly hedged way of speaking is confounding
the difference between those aspects of our thinking over which we
are severally blessed through birth or breeding to enjoy a modicum
of awareness, control, and effability and the mostly automatic and
even habituated or instinctual routines that, as in the parable of
the fish that barely sees the sea through which it swims and which
forms the medium of its moment to moment struggle for survival, at
least, not unless the bowl is very cramped and the water begins to
grow opaque with the pollution of every school's inkling of it all,
routines, I was saying, that obstruct our clear view at every turn.
This is the sort of problem that I have been trying to make
a bit of headway against for as long as I can remember, and
I naturally tend to become a bit frustrated at times by all
my own innate and inured obstacles as much as those imposed
by others. What irritates me primarily is uncertainty, and
what I do about it is inquiry, and so, in the way of trying
to do that, what irritates me secondarily is any variety of
block in the way of inquiry, and it just so happens that we,
being human, all too human, have grown a bit too fascinated
with some of the blocs or the cliques to which we now cling.
This is all perfectly natural, or it would not be happening,
but it interferes with the cures of inquiry and of analysis,
the steady application of which is indicated for our health.
Anyway, that's kind of how I see the situation,
Many Regards,
Jon Awbrey
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