Dear Bob
We are living in peculiar times where ‘knowing’ is more important than
‘being’.
‘Communication’ gaining more importance than ‘cognition’ is then natural
and that too the language aspect of it. That is the reason why someone
with *insight* had to re assert ‘medium is the message’.
What we hear is the language but what one cognizes or experiences or lives
is the totality where there is no distinction between medium and the
message.
The peculiarity of modernity is that the chance to ‘misunderstand’ is more
than to ‘understand’. When one tries to understand someone else it is quite
natural to misunderstand. Understanding takes place at the level of
‘being’. It seems that ‘ objectivity’ is taking us for a ride.
Out of the box?
There is an expression- blind men looking for a black cat in a dark room
where the cat itself is not present. The enquiry that is based on reason
and language seems to me like that. The ‘peer review’ seems to compound
and entrench this search. Out of the box seems like a myth. One creates a
larger box and gets outside the present box. This box is the box of reason
and language and reason has to have ‘known’ to operate and the true out of
the box situation can only happens in the realm of ‘unknown’.
Please allow me to quote Friedrich Nietzsche *“But how could we possibly
explain anything? We operate only with things that do not exist: lines,
planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time spans, divisible spaces. How should
explanations be at all possible when we first turn everything into an
image, our image!”*
And Democritus ‘*The senses speak to the understanding: “Poor
understanding, from us you took the pieces of evidence and with them you
want to throw us down? This down throwing will be your fall.*”
Hope you will continue to allow me to play the devils advocate.
Jinan
'DIGITAL MEDIUM IS A TOOL.DIGITALLY MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE DESTROYS THE BEING'
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