[Marsha]
Marsha processes all kinds of patterns. She processes millions of
patterns in a single day, some intellectual, some not. I am not an
intellectual; I am not a single definition of anything. I'm not
even a grandmother. Can you even consider what it is not to attach
to such superficial self-identification. I'm this. I'm that. What
utter ridiculousness!
[Arlo]
This is quite a tangent from my point, but...
If you are not attached to "superficial self-identification", why do
you sign all your posts "Marsha"?
I'd never say you are "one thing" and forever trapped in that
definition. Even as a "son" or "father", that role changes over the
course of a lifetime. But to claim that you are totally free from
being "this" or "that" is utter ridiculousness. When you daughter
calls you, do you tell her "I don't have a daughter, and I am not a
mother"? What would the point of that be? I am not sure if your
mother is still with you, but if she is or when she was, did you tell
her "you are not my mother because I am not a daughter"? Do you tell
your grandchildren you are not their grandmother because you are not
this and not that? If they are not your grandchildren, why do you
treat them differently than any other child that age you come across?
When you sign all your posts "Marsha", there is a stable pattern of
identification, a desire to thread consistency through your posts,
that is the pointer "Marsha". You are not an intellectual because
you've been assigned that label, you are an intellectual because you
enjoy the activity of philosophy, of thinking about metaphysical
issues, of playing with patterns of thinking. It is not more
derogatory a label than "mother", which you affirm every time you
nurture and console and teach and support and raise and advise and
love and provide for your child. "Grandmother" is not an artificial
trap of some kind, it is a testament to your activity.
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