[MD] Transhumanism

[John Carl]

Matt the articulate articulates:


> The cruelty of the articulate over the inarticulate is
> something intellectuals don't often consider, I think.  When
> the inarticulate battle amongst themselves, I think they
> sometimes cause fires they aren't aware of.  But the
> articulate should know better.  And what's more, the
> inarticulate know when they're being bullied.  I think the
> American trend that Richard Hofstadter called
> "anti-intellectualism" is the revolt of the inarticulate against
> the articulate.  And there not exactly wrong on the
> personal level.  In the short-run, the articulate need to do
> better at talking to the inarticulate.  The onus is on us,
> and we are horrible at it much of the time.  It is only in the
> long-run where we are unarguably right: we need to make
> everyone articulate.
>
> Matt
>


This really caught my attention Matt.  You're describing a problem I've
encountered lots myself and I've never really solved it correctly.  Usually
I just disengage with a mental sneer or a sad backward glance, but always a
lot of confusion.  "If you have a problem, why don't you talk about it?" I
think to myself, but the problem is the other doesn't know how to talk about
anything deep.  The work of "know thyself" is so foreign to their thinking
that articulating what they know is impossible.

And it seems the more carefully I articulate myself, the more the
inarticulate gets caught up in nodding along and secretly frustrated by my
articulation - which does nothing to help them do the same - they get too
caught up in MY articulations to be able to form their own.

So it seems to me, that articulation doesn't help, silence doesn't help.
But a careful process of silence and articulation in a long process, mighty
help.  Psychotherapy, Eastern and Western.

It's not wordiness we want, it's truth.

Thanks for the articulate conversation,

John


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