Comments | hoserofdoom: Contradiction is the Spice of Discourse

hoserofdoom

Contradiction is the Spice of Discourse

Apr 15, 2009 01:23

I vaguely recall arguing with a libertarian that contradictions in the policies of our co-operative (and in law) were desirable, because they encoded a range of behaviours sanctioned and proscribed by the community, to be enforced more or less as the conditions warranted. They encoded to some extent organizational wisdom that would otherwise be ( Read more... )

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on insanity... onemoreblog April 18 2009, 14:15:34 UTC

Your suggestion that there possibly needs to be a boundary between sanity and insanity is interesting - I've always viewed it as a more dynamic, "organic" situation. A situation with a lot of easy-to-understand physics going on would be a good analogy; let's say that the mind is a ship. My mind may be a crusty junk, yours a prototype missile cruiser (that will never be deployed because it's too expensive ;) ) and someone else's a submarine (in that you only seldom know it's there - ha ha, get it?). Whatever it is, it is optimally stable and buoyant in the water - you are "sane," and the sea state is roughly analogous to the turmoil in the real world around you ( ... )

Re: on insanity... hoserofdoom April 18 2009, 16:39:05 UTC

Your response totally made the post worthwhile. If I could come up with analogies like that, I'd make a run at fame and fortune as an author.

Re: on insanity... onemoreblog April 21 2009, 02:04:41 UTC

Hmm, so, I should write a book of bizarre analogies?