Thursday 28 August 2008

skills and insights -- patriarchal style!


I've finally thawed! It's been too long. I hardly expected that working so hard would make me so numb to the lures of pleasure offered in everyday existence. Tonight I feel almost normal again. It's been a while.

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Lately I wonder about those who play a stupid game in an enduring fashion  -- the game is blind man's bluff, involving someone who knows nothing latching onto those they encounter, and managing to create a 'relationship', no matter how dysfunctional, on the basis of random firings in the other person's direction. Will he, in time, come to recognise his particular mode of lurching and latching on to be an achievement based on something other than knowledge?

To jump to a negative conclusion about someone and to proclaim this conclusion as having been born of insight is the bluff of those who have become blind.

Yet off they go -- these blind men -- talking now among themselves about their special skills and insights.  They think they've discovered the essence of males and females, although they've never encountered an actual living version of either.

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