It pretty much all goes back to Kant & Saussere.
Kant proposed that we experience everything only within consciousness,
Any zenster could have told him that, but I digress ...
he then went on to identify the fundamental mental processes involved
and live an incredibly rigid & scheduled life.
Saussere, after racking his brain for ages, discovered that words do not have any significance -- other than that which we ascribe to them.
So, we end up without any objective reality,
and a dubious tool to communicate our subjective experience.
Now, try applying these notions to the political conversation going on around us.
Decisions must be made, I concede,
but upon what do we base the foundation of our decisioning making?
Could be a problem ...
The following two films illustrate these points.
The first is a documentary about a 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela.
The second film points out the first film's supposed "lies."
You gotta love our postmodern condition!
Can any of us say anything about things we have not personally experienced
with anything resembling authority?
I guess that I'm trying to say,
"BEWARE YOUR OPINIONS"
more than likely, they are not,
in any real sense,
your own.
dig?
Kant proposed that we experience everything only within consciousness,
Any zenster could have told him that, but I digress ...
he then went on to identify the fundamental mental processes involved
and live an incredibly rigid & scheduled life.
Saussere, after racking his brain for ages, discovered that words do not have any significance -- other than that which we ascribe to them.
So, we end up without any objective reality,
and a dubious tool to communicate our subjective experience.
Now, try applying these notions to the political conversation going on around us.
Decisions must be made, I concede,
but upon what do we base the foundation of our decisioning making?
Could be a problem ...
The following two films illustrate these points.
The first is a documentary about a 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela.
The second film points out the first film's supposed "lies."
You gotta love our postmodern condition!
Can any of us say anything about things we have not personally experienced
with anything resembling authority?
I guess that I'm trying to say,
"BEWARE YOUR OPINIONS"
more than likely, they are not,
in any real sense,
your own.
dig?
