simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 10:01:31 JST
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I wish you as much corruption as possible to bequeath on them. I guess your erudition will do the trick, as nobody can beat you on that terrain.
Which reminds me of Gregory Bateson and his "Metalogs" in his "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" (1972), wherein he has conversations with his daughter. The main trait of these conversations is that he never directly answers a question his daughter puts at him but always replies in an evasive but at the same time determined fashion, "No, no, no that way...". Mary Catherine Bateson must have felt very confused and disappointed at times, and it's a form of cheap game he played. But refusing the fundamental paradigm that questions have answers may indeed be one of the best sabotages of literalism people may achieve. Which opens the eyes to the images and imaginary, and that's all your ballgame.