and it may be true
depends upon one's point of view who have the small minds
but i was thinking of the fallaciousness of the idea of an integrated
person as compared to the the idea of a person being more like a parliament
perhaps
L
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From: Rebecca Seiferle [log in to unmask]
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:04:14 -0500
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: orwell
Ah, Lawrence, you reminded of Emerson's quote
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
ha, now back to my troll,
Rebecca
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>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:31:10 -0500
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>Subject: Re: orwell
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>Quite possibly
>
>When they are role-playing, they are behaving as they *think human beings
>behave. It is a model; it is simplistic. We deny that we are inconsistent
>and so misrepresent ourselves in role play
>
>O, rather, it is not that we are inconsistent, but that the concept of
>consistency which we all seem to share in our assumptions regarding the
>constitution of a sane human being, is inappropriate
>
>L
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>From: Joanna Boulter [log in to unmask]
>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:35:19 -0000
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: orwell
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>People just aren't consistent, on the whole, unless they're role-playing. I
>twigged this at about ten years old, and have seen nothing since to make me
>change my mind.
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