Hi Ron,
Ron said:
I think you touch on an interesting subject because it would seem
there would be reasons to value paradox. For example as a reaction
to the social pressures of performance in a rigidly defined
environment. I think most of us have experienced it as type of
release from those expectations. An intellectual justification to not
take those expectations too seriously.
I can see it taken to extremes in a symbolic way to represent the
struggle of the individual with society.
Matt:
A social release of expectations, but too an intellectual release, a
breaking of the rigid definitions. I think both of those, separately,
are good uses of paradox (combine them and say mu with a hammer).
In particular, I think your last formulation, paradox as a representation
of the struggle between individual and society, captures exactly
Emerson's path: "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Matt
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