In a message dated 1/23/99 7:39:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Go back and read the existentialists and the phenomenologists, and meditate
on the significance of self-consciousness, which is what makes all of "this"
possible, and see if you can revise your dogma in light of further
understanding. >>
If reading old pedants is what is necessary to Dullen my sensitivity towards
life, and necessary to prevent my own thinking, no thank you.
The existentialists and phenomenologists were human racists as well, largely
unfamiliar with biology, and therefore all their conclusions regarding what is
truly human are suspect. YOU might do well, however, to read Gurdjieff, and
realize how truly Rare this "self-consciousness" you worship is ... don't
flatter humanimals by assuming they are constantly in this mode ... it's more
rare than is assumed ... and I'm not certain it's anything to really brag
about ... note the relationship between "self-conscious" and "awkward" ... the
best way to throw a tennis player off is to draw attention to hir move ....
the "unconscious" does quite fine .... (that which we call "unconscious") ...
the unconscious does fine in other animals as well, and it is true that their
experience thereof is modified differently, as our experience is modified by
linguistic-social structures as well ...
Regarding "dogma", I assume you're placing yourself in some privileged
position above all that ... given that you're the one who continually has to
repeat to yourself that "animals are not people" like some formulaic mantra...
