The Danish disease, yeah. Nothing you can do about this twisted vanity thing.
On 24 Feb., 14:27, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > The classic argument from child is in the Emperor's New Clothes - > though we sit as adults nodding like donkeys when he is declared naked > without recognising 'we' are the idiot adults of the story. South > Park does a lot of sociology as 'out of the mouths of babes'. > > My child was impressed by the opening of a B movie vampire saga. The > opening is a memoir of an old vampire fighter, writing-up as they are > about to do for him. Another child was impressed by the guy hanging > on to life in a pulp Western, one bullet left, Indians swarming. He > hangs on long enough to discharge his last bullet in order to warn the > oncoming stagecoach. Existential heroes a-go-go. I don't approve of > Indian-slaying or the myths that hide its reality, but do believe the > Undead are amongst us (as metaphor). > > Over the years it has regularly seemed to me that one emerges from > organisational interventions only with a memoir about the Undead to > write - something that might just help in a more rational future, or > with the one-bullet warning. The old joke is about it being no use > draining the swamp when one is up to one's arse in alligators, yet the > reality is that the alligators would have been no problem in the first > place if we had taken account of them in their own terms. The classic > statement in systems analysis is that you are doing it for the first > time when you first see the world through the eyes of another. The > ghastly truth is that this view will not be very nice, likely a flying > mess of projections. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
