nedjelja, 13. ožujka 2011.

Common Fallacies

A friend just asked what sublime was, so, as illustration, I chose to entitle the post thus, instead of the vulgar 'Usual Errors'.
I have begun the 14 versions of my first draft idea for the MA synopsis always with the same assertion: that the notion of how something is unnatural is the most exploited ruse in human history. Homosexuality is accordingly unnatural, and so was the position of ancient Greek women natural. Ditto for everything else. For fuck's sake.
The second most abused idea belongs to the field of metaphysical speculation. The world is swamped in unresolved philosophical problems, the most urgent one probably being the extent of free will if such a thing exists at all in the conventional sense, and those that interpret the quake in Japan as Doomsday (at least that's the headline in the most prominent Croatian daily, the word prominent being highly ironic, please do note) - are treading the path of insanity.
I have just seen an interview on Croatian national TV, and this preacher all but claims he is in direct contact with God himself. For me, when you start speaking of what God is saying to you - this is as good a definition of lunacy as any.
We should instead stick to what can be cupped from the sea, to use the Biblical quotation once again, and build a better society that nourishes a sense of unknown.
Further info on my stance to be found at ikonoklast.minijaturist.net

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