Back to Trilling The Recognitions

[Richard Ryan]

Yeah baby!  This is the way I'm heading with my *very* preliminary
interpretation of book - it's a high watermark of what Bloom would
call "American Gnosticism"...an exposure of how false values
(originality, chastity, unity) try to crowd out more powerful and
resonant - but also banned or hidden - frameworks.  Those secret but
emergent frameworks might include: extensibility [to use the systems
architecture term], engagement, diversity, the cult of experience....

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 5/5/2011 12:48 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 5/5/2011 9:52 AM, Jed Kelestron wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  It's
>>>>>> my experience that females can sometimes be quite adept at pointing
>>>>>> out
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> delusions of males.  (not that this will necessary always be the case)
>>
>> A pointless exercise for the woman whose opinions the man holds in
>> contempt[she grumbled].
>
> We have to admit this is often how it is.
>
> According to the Clementine Recognitions,  God has concealed that which is
> profitable to man.  An observable fact in that ancient time, as it is today.
>  Only today we would substitute evolutionary development for God.
>
> Is there some adaptive reason that the truth of the world is so hidden from
> us that we require artists and philosophers to force us into a tiny glimmer
> of recognition?
>
> As a matter of fact I think there is a good reason.  Knowledge of, and
> living in accordance with, the full truth of our being would be too
> dangerous  for all but the most intrepid (and perhaps insanely suicidal) of
> us.
>
> As Jack Nicholson said, we can't handle the truth.
>
> P
>
>> Laura
>>
>
>
>



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