[MD] Moq_Discuss Digest, Vol 71, Issue 36

[Jan-Anders Andersson]

Hi Steve

http://youtu.be/3gtcouz1dDo

If someone takes his clothes off, in public, and nobody's taking notice, then he must be the King? or God help him....
The cultures in which we live, forces us to wear certain things on our body to make other people think that we really look this way.

Shame is a social expression for uncelebrity

Jan-Anders


10 okt 2011 kl. 08.29 skrev moq_discuss-request at lists.moqtalk.org:

> Hi all,
> 
> Perhaps it was just an off-hand literary flourish that we ought not
> take too seriously, but what do you make of the notion of taking off
> the glasses ("God help him.") in the passage from Lila (ch 8) quoted
> below?...
> 
> "The same is true of subjects and objects.  The culture in which we live
> hands us a set of intellectual glasses to interpret experience with, and
> the concept of the primacy of subjects and objects is built right into
> these glasses.  If someone sees things through a somewhat different set of
> glasses or, God help him, takes his glasses off, the natural tendency of
> those who still have their glasses on is to regard his statements as
> somewhat weird, if not actually crazy."
> 
> 
> Best,
> Steve