ian,
yup. :"Rorty holed up in the position that
"consensus" was the only way to avoid deconstructionism's extraordinary
difficulties on this issue. This "consensus" could be the consensus of
experts, as well as (and he says this) nice progressive liberals like
himself whose greatest horror is causing pain to anyone."
and? let us look at the bull approaching and see the horn of deus populi as
one horn, and Absolute Authority on the other. how do we dance?
to get "real" here,
:"Its point is that all communication
is inherently problematic and ultimately, impossible since every statement
is subject to endless self-subversion." is exacctly true. and was added to the
lit imnho most clearly, if not originally, by de sade. it forms a core message
from which manifests the literary output of de sade. which is, in my verrry
firm and actualised opinion, is the reason the UHJ would think the issue of
deconstructionism noteworthy. de sade opines that the >>>only<< time there is
certitude in communication, and thence intimacy, and thence belonging, is when
one is interpreting the moment of infliction of pain and the resulting scream
of the recipient. society is doing this to itself. erica troussant offers in
some talks the idea that "since we all belong to God, we all want to belong."
and in my head i now see a qed.
i now add the concretely useful philosopher fred rogers, in his stunningly
effective psa for gulf storm i..."children will ask "who will take care of me?
"they are not selfish for doing so...it is the only question they can have."
this isn't about us. and as u note so well, not about japanese restaurants.
:"deconstruction as a
method of analysing discourse/action can make anything - anti-semitism -
into anything else - philojudaism - i.e. turn Mother Teresa into Dr. Mengele
and vice versa." as can any kind of sophistry. the Master notes in re something
or other aristotle offering a ptolemaic "proof" for astronomy, and later a
copernican "proof" which was not widely circulated.
at this existential moment i am waiting a phone call about whether my skill
set will be utilised by people who studying whether social engineering can be
achieved thru facebook aps. this is accomplished by deconstructing their
responses to choice until the "buttons" are found, at which point the buttons
can be painted with the coulour of the moment into a new construct. one might
erview the work of the concrete philosopher phillip zimbardo for examples. or
ruhi 3 or 5.
and thus back to the virtue of necessity and the meaning of treasure.
Baha'u'llah seems to have nice things to Say about socrates in the
Lawh-i-Hikmat. from a wiki-ish watering down of the phaedrus, :"After Theuth
remarks on his discovery of writing as a remedy for the memory, Thamus responds
that its true effects are likely to be the opposite; it is a remedy for
reminding, not remembering, he says, with the appearance but not the reality of
wisdom. Future generations will hear much without being properly taught, and
will appear wise but not be so, making them difficult to get along with." does
derrida point us back to this? for many, yes. the issue is then possibly, to
cite otis redding, "where'm i gonna go from here?"
i would offer that this central issue "difficult to get along with" is an
apt description of the world described in aDj.
i would offer that derrida, as an example of one too busy pointing out he has
the chariot reins in his hand to direct the flight is a poster boy for the
phenomenon he descries and decrys.
i would however also offer that the relevant issue is the deconstruction of
"approaches" to Text and implementation, and creating direct experience, to the
extent possible of the >behaviour< the Text describes as the useful conduct of
the charioteer.
i find that in your answer to sen we have a great deal of common ground,
towards finding the bull's back.
:"notice the self-contradiction if we read "relative" in a simplistic
way: how can there be a "fundamental verity" i.e. a changeless foundational
truth, if this itself is subject to change and is only relatively true?"
easy. fundamental verity : life. algae and eagle, equal participants in a
fundamental verity. almost entirely disparate in their responses to it.
i offer a concrete to ur analysis, in the hope of increasing the common ground.
years ago david frost in a tv showw "that was the weeks that was" had a bit
where a klansman and an afrocentric radical debated. the klansman stated: "the
negro is 2 million years behind in evolution." the afrocentric retorted " the
black man is the original man" i offer that this is a prime example of
subverting of meaning by juxtaposition. others might see it as iconoclastic.
others as simple friday night humour. with in this iconoclasm/deconstruction
dialectic, where do u put it?
:"Deconstructionism could never accede to this statement given its intrinsic
assumption of a privileged viewpoint." can deconstruction say "God changed his
mind" in between sips of coffee?
:""what is known is known in the manner of the knower."" ok. my recall of the
Most Great Unity is that the manners of knowing, quaakitiatively and
quantifiably must not of themselves become causes of differentiation, and would
thus hold equal "value to the "holder".
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