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Dear Empyreans,
Iagree, Simon, that the /debunking of wiretapping/ by FBI director James
Comeyand NSA director Mike Rogers is an important move against the whole fake
newsthing. I don’t suppose I’m the only one here concerned about the threat of
a soclled Goebbels or /big lie/ effecttaking hold. Like mass hysteria or
collective obsessional behavior—but perhapsin(cluding) virtual reality
platforms. It may be that all ships of state havetwo starboard sides and
excessively large poop decks. /Epistemic bubbles/ laterpopping when punctured
by extra linguistic things. Agree too on Alan’s commenton the importance of
failure (and especially glad to get those book titles).Belief/Deception: You
never know. Shelley in ‘A defence of poetry’: ‘[Poets’]language is vitally
metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehendedrelations of things,
and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words whichrepresent them, become
through time signs for portions or classes of thoughtsinstead of pictures of
integral thoughts; and then if no new poets should ariseto create afresh the
associations which have become thus disorganized, languagewill be dead to all
the nobler purposes of human intercourse […]. In theinfancy of society every
author is necessarily a poet, because language itselfis poetry; and to be a
poet is to apprehend the true and the beautiful, in aword the good which exists
in the relation, subsisting first between existenceand perception, and secondly
between perception and expression.’ Best
wishes,Williamhttp://tinyurl.com/pkemmhk
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