friday: figs and chords

[A cord is a long flexible string or rope, often made of thinner pieces woven together. A chord is “three or more musical tones played together.”

how multiple meanings can multiply intent . 

The fig tree is about choices of paths .. Sylvia Plath […I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just becaus I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one they plopped to the ground at my feet….]

and, taking a break from my fig tree thinking I returned to a question about musical chords ..arriving at :

nick drake… success after death.. finding the commercial in the commercial . The time for memory selling the past .. The acoustic over automobile speakers … mechanized memory .

https://youtu.be/fBdbRoSrWr4?si=-S9K02k4Qc3OPSir

Even successful artists carry doubts. Success is never fully sustaining. Success never reduces doubt among the most creative artists.

[ often grouped with existentialist thinkers, Camus consistently rejected the existentialist label, insisting that his philosophy of the absurd was distinct from both Kierkegaard’s leap of faith and Heidegger’s ontology of Being. Instead, Camus argued that the confrontation between humanity’s “appetite for meaning” and the universe’s “unreasonable silence” constituted the absurd, which must be lived with clarity rather than resolved by appeal to transcendence ]

https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyphus.pdf

Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus, Translated by Justin O’Brien, Penguin Books, London (1955) ISBN 978-0-14-102399-1

Regression toward the Meme

This house resolves: WE are here to pound our chests and leave unchanged, more committed to selling merch in halls and always online.

Regression to a meme… a degraded conversation makes any exchange seem fulsome, even though it is not wholesome.

finishing with surrender as victory: “We have to agree to disagree…” debate tactic of the novice grown confident by absolution from funders happily using you as front men to the children’s chorus.

?why do we have to agree…. the debate wasn’t needed. You came with your fixed opinion. Held my stage, but didn’t listen, learn. I gave you attention along with an audience. We end where we began in awareness and knowledge. Except.

absolutes negate. How long was the earth flat?

Putin or ?; T-bag provides tiny version of Putin’s argument.. history from the attacker. Explanation of a long ago childhood trauma wouldn’t be evidentiary in Kirk’s court of aggression, yet serves well as reasoning for excuse of bully boy-friend… the acceptance is over anticipated wealth .

All is subject to a business based on bathroom deals and toilet paper contracts.

loser: agree to disagree — cry uncle and reset another game. Back to were we began, except you have been given a stage and audience.

You won. T-shirts and mugs available. “Prove me wrong” is a slogan not evidence. Catchy enough, even in the Ketchup free state.

===one with facts, one with accusations impossible to prove wrong. The winner is always the one most available for interviews.

This educational model aimed to cultivate well-rounded individuals equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to engage in public life, think critically, and pursue moral and intellectual virtues [wikip]

  • Middle ages AD 500-1500
  • Renaissance: 12th C and 15th 16th
  • Age of Enlightenment  1687-1789

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