GR translation: almost a reflexive Consciousness of Kind

[Mark Kohut]

http://www.britannica.com/topic/consciousness-of-kind

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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