GR translation: almost a reflexive Consciousness of Kind

[Jochen Stremmel]

I hope I understand your question right. There seems to be a slight
contradiction between the distaste and the consciousness, and I read it
along Franklin H. Giddings’ term.

(From the wikipedia: "His most significant contribution is the concept of
the consciousness of kind, which is a state of mind whereby one conscious
being recognizes another as being of like mind.")

So you recognize them as similar to you and part of the distaste is
directed at yourself.



2016-05-06 9:30 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> V755.29-756.2, P770.33-771.4   But it is difflcult to keep one’s whole
> attention centered on Manager Zhlubb. The Santa Monica Freeway is
> traditionally the scene of every form of automotive folly known to man. It
> is not white and well-bred like the San Diego, nor as treacherously
> engineered as the Pasadena, nor quite as ghetto-suicidal as the Harbor. No,
> one hesitates to say it, but the Santa Monica is a freeway for freaks and
> they are all out today, making it difflcult for you to follow the Manager’s
> entertaining story. You cannot repress a certain shudder of distaste,
> almost a reflexive Consciousness of Kind, in their presence. They come
> gibbering in at you from all sides, swarming in, rolling their eyes through
> the side windows, playing harmonicas and even kazoos, in full disrespect
> for the Prohibitions.
>
> How is this "shudder of distaste" linked to a "reflexive Consciousness of
> Kind"?
>
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