[MD] staying on the moon

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

Heard this from a lecture this morning from a Dr. Richard A. Shweder, a cultural anthropologist.  The lecture was titled 'Understanding the Meta-Physical Realities of Un-Physical Things' and was downloaded from iTunes University.  His claim is to be a Confusionist, not a Confuciusist, and he states of Confusionism:

"Its central maxim is that the knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point-of-view, incoherent if seen from all points-of-view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular."  Dr. Shweder stated that being incoherent was not for him, and emptiness was too distant and cold, so he chose the incomplete point-of-view.  He likened the incomplete point-of-view to "staying on the moon between different points-of-view", or "It might be seen as sitting on a branch and starting to saw off the branch that you're sitting on.  But looking while you're sitting on that branch, not just doing the deconstruction, but doing the construction work of seeing what you can see from that particular perspective.  When that particular branch gives way, you go to another branch: eternal freefall.  You will never hit the ground.  But I try to stay on the moon."



p.s.  Yesterday I restored my iMac hard drive and upgraded to OS X Lions.  PhotoShop is now not working, and I am suffering.  Sigh.