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Romy the Cat
Boston, MA
Posts 10,410
Joined on 05-28-2004
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It is like going to forest to collect mushrooms or berries. You collect only what you know, you do not collect what you do not know.
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I am not sure where the supposed connection between Camus and Stalin is being inferred. Camus’s ideas of communism bears no meaningful relation to what was historically constructed in USSR, either ideologically or psychologically. This is a great example how a noun Communism has completely different definition for Camus, me, a brainwashed Western observer, Soviet operatives or some other entities.
I do not listen to Bach while working. I might on occasion, but it would involve different works and serve an entirely different intentional function.
You see, the nouns Listening, Bach or Audio denote more than objects or activities; they imply distinct modes of engagement, each mapped onto different—and often deep—structures of the human psyche. Without knowing narrative of this mapping the meanings might become ambiguous or irrelevant.
The same semantic multiplicity applies to the word gun, for instance. It may refer to a physical weapon, a political symbol, an engineering achievement, a metaphorical construct, or a psychological archetype, among other possibilities. The meaning is not inherent in the noun itself but emerges from the narrative framework within which it is situated.
To understand any noun properly, it must be interpreted within the context of the given narrative and its associated intentional stance. I operate within a personal narrative of “audio” that is distinctly different from conventional conceptions. As a result, It is possible that the rules governing my engagement with audio may not coincide with those that apply to audio in context or the socially standardized forms.
Ironically, the last sentence is the most complex. are the rules of my audio version equivalent to those of conventional audio, or are they categorically different? I have many hypotheses, but no conclusion that I would yet regard as theoretically stable. I am also entirely comfortable with the absence of a definitive answer to this question.
"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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