tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post7765429562563493811..comments2024-01-31T16:23:51.283-07:00Comments on Keye Commentary: The High Cost Of Going It AloneJames Keyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11059210373687674369noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-15460185006834546912011-04-19T13:27:55.706-06:002011-04-19T13:27:55.706-06:00dADDo,
I admit to a certain confusion regards you...dADDo,<br /><br />I admit to a certain confusion regards your comment. Rereading the essay I recognized my habit of using biological references – this is natural since we are living things and comparisons with other living things are the closest currently available. But other than the photographic image of the man making himself, which I saw as representing absurdity (a cartoon Koan), I didn’t see in the essay a great dependence on 3D imagery.<br /><br />That said, I liked very much your assertion of sculptural metaphor as a process of revealing the underlying form as opposed to the fabricating of form from isolated pieces. I am insufficiently hubristic to take much credit for that accomplishment if it exists, though it is definitely a goal that I have absorbed from my personal community.<br /><br />I hope that I have understood you correctly.James Keyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11059210373687674369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-13761322565111776432011-04-19T13:25:26.974-06:002011-04-19T13:25:26.974-06:00Michael,
I think this is a nomenclatural matter o...Michael,<br /><br />I think this is a nomenclatural matter once the conceptual ducks are properly in rows. Informed repair and removal of the body’s organs and the effects of an antipersonnel land mine share certain common features, so it is fortunate and useful that we have clear language differences for describing them. The sophists have largely avoided this arena.<br /><br />They have, however, devoted great attention to the muddying of our understanding and language around the issues of community, individualism, wealth, responsibility, obligation, etc., all those concepts that would function to organize community control over and inhibit sociopathic greed and power.<br /><br />In the medical example there is most often a clear distinction between ‘incision’ and ‘mutilation’, where as ‘individualism’ can refer to making a conceptual difference between one’s self and other beings, but also might refer to the absolute separation of one body from all others in terms of rights, responsibilities, obligations and all other forms of relationship (including reality). This native ambiguity has been thoroughly exploited.<br /><br />I agree completely that a mature adult of the species has a healthy sense of distinction from other humans as well as other species and objects, but is also deeply aware of interpenetrating relationships that form her or him. We could/should be even more aware of these Buddhist like continuities and paradoxes today in this world of information plenty – we could be – but it is not the information that has failed us, it is that somehow we are not maturing into adults.<br /><br />I try to limit, in my own thinking, the word ‘individualism’ to the concepts of Lockean liberalism and the Christian based notions of individuals as specially created. Healthy self-recognition and distinction forming out of the absolute connectedness of physical, living and consciousness systems is something quite different and finds its best ‘understandings’ from Zen Buddhism and other such practices.James Keyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11059210373687674369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-77464001581739947742011-04-19T04:12:14.747-06:002011-04-19T04:12:14.747-06:00I haven't even completed reading the article a...I haven't even completed reading the article as my mind has wandered off thinking as to why you (James) are always using sculptural 3D type images images to compliment your articles while talking about community and inclusiveness which even though 4D conceives itself in 2D.<br />Sculpture/reality is revealed by taking away, not adding.<br />Hhhhmmm...more later?daddohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12404602580586745533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-38474323180608484882011-04-17T19:26:31.346-06:002011-04-17T19:26:31.346-06:00This is brilliant and deep. I am generally convin...This is brilliant and deep. I am generally convinced that much of our atomization has been part of the drive to commodification.<br /><br />Still, a question: Is all individualism a disease? I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. Isn't a mature, socially-informed individualism possible?Michael Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353560855423670828noreply@blogger.com