a disturbing discovery
this is what i discovered
pornography is more real than sex
more intense
more vivid
hate is more real than love
more intense
more vivid
death is more real than life
more intense
more vivid
(and certainly longer lasting)
this is what i discovered
pornography is more real than sex
more intense
more vivid
hate is more real than love
more intense
more vivid
death is more real than life
more intense
more vivid
(and certainly longer lasting)
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September 10th, 2009 at 11:42 am
and this is what i have discovered:
our tendency as humans to set up exclusive binary oppositions to order and rank our experience and feelings excludes ambiguity… and thus we impede our ability to embrace ourselves living things that don’t revolve around the poles we’ve erected.
for instance
love is stronger than death,
more real, more vivid
(and certainly longer lasting)
hate is more perishable than love, and so is pornography
and sex is where life and death meet.
September 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
how can death be more intense and vivid? are you a zombie? are you dead? explain please,for im dwelling in confusion
September 11th, 2009 at 7:18 am
why cant people just accept the testimony of zombies? if john searle is all that stands between zombies and ourselves than im afraid were already zombies.
i would think binarism is the precondition for ambiguity:see umberto eco on adam and eves problems at
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=kljnp_humeic&pg=pa90&lpg=pa90&dq=umberto+eco+aesthetic+messages+in+edenic+languages&source=bl&ots=lecxwwkxoq&sig=nf9qwyz2d3utjoshkkve3n8l23k&hl=en&ei=rdypsr6wk5mojaflscxmbw&sa=x&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
September 11th, 2009 at 9:26 am
one uses all five senses when having sex, so it must be more vivid than pornography. and hate is black, without colour. how can it then be more vivid than love?
September 11th, 2009 at 10:09 am
thanks for the link jean-pierre, but it appears it is “403 forbidden” fruit to my browser:
“We’re sorry… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now. We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google.”
(hahaha, are they protecting us from the fruit of knowledge of good and evil???)
Anyway, so I can’t respond to Eco.
But yes, it is so true that “ambiguity” as a concept is semiotically linked to binarism, and, more generally, that the words we have at our disposal order the way we interpret experience. maybe the word i used could’ve been more murky and chaotic…
i’m not suggesting that we should chuck out thinking using polarities, though. we need order and symmetry and balance to make sense and see beauty. all i was saying is that to think and experience more freely, we should remain conscious that the customary oppositional relationship set up between two particular concepts is not the only meaningful axis along which to understand those concepts e.g. sex versus pornography, life versus death, love versus hate, light versus dark, good versus evil, chaos versus order. if these binaries remain unexamined and rigid in our thinking, other possible ways of relating and feeling are narrowed and obscured.
November 14th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
une découverte dérangeante
voilà ce que j’ai découvert
la pornographie est plus vraie que le sexe
plus intense
plus vivante
la haine est plus vraie que l’amour
plus intense
plus vivante
la mort est plus vraie que la vie
plus intense
plus vivante
(et sûrement sa durée est plus longue)