... pressed "send" too soon ...
I was going to add - a deconstructive Fool back then did dance, while being
a "trickster" at the same time, and the reason he could make fun of the
king was his ability to deconstruct the court atmosphere and re-present &
re-speak the truth ... not "alternative facts"
Johann
On 23 February 2017 at 07:33, Johann van der Merwe <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Keith
> Are you a Fool then?
>
> "The jesters were given a power that no other person in the kingdom was
> granted: the power to openly mock any noble he saw fit, even the King or
> Queen. So long as it was done in a jesting manner, a jester could get away
> with poking fun at any of the nobles shortcomings."
>
> On 23 February 2017 at 06:22, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]
> au> wrote:
>
>> Dear Terry,
>>
>> Being shown the possibly faulty nature of our uninspected mental events is
>> instructive for this who can see a use in being wrong.
>> Many people don¹t enjoy being shown to be wrong in their social reasoning.
>>
>> If so much of our reasoning is social then we might establish social
>> relations which are based on finding errors in our thinking.
>> Following Socrates and Aristotle, that¹s what universities could look
>> like.
>>
>> I struggle at the moment to get some people in my acquaintance to see the
>> errors in their social readings of what Donald Trump says (and doesn¹t
>> say).
>>
>> For me, the pleasure is in seeing how the trick works, not in being right
>> or wrong.
>>
>> But then I find myself in the small society of deconstructive tricksters.
>> Membership is free but not much dancing goes on.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> keith
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22/2/17, 3:41 pm, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
>> studies and related research in Design on behalf of Terence Love"
>> <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> >Thoughts?
>> >
>> >
>> >http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont
>> -change-our-min
>> >ds
>> >
>> >
>> >Best wishes,
>> >
>> >Terry
>>
>>
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