Some aspects of military culture are very positive. My views come from the parallel world of martial arts and an understanding of how a question raised by intellectual shamanism is addressed via structured experiences.
As Nietzsche and Bataille knew, language does not encapsulate emotion, because it cannot do so. Therefore, only people with similar experiences will be able to draw the deeper meanings from a book. Others will stay on the surface, in relation to the author's understandings and her expectations of the reader.
An organised structure of experience gives everybody common meanings by providing a common basis for feeling. Thus it reverses the Tower of Babel effect that prevails in where many people have very different values and experiences, but believe themselves to be speaking the same language. Very often they could not be more mistaken
As Nietzsche and Bataille knew, language does not encapsulate emotion, because it cannot do so. Therefore, only people with similar experiences will be able to draw the deeper meanings from a book. Others will stay on the surface, in relation to the author's understandings and her expectations of the reader.
An organised structure of experience gives everybody common meanings by providing a common basis for feeling. Thus it reverses the Tower of Babel effect that prevails in where many people have very different values and experiences, but believe themselves to be speaking the same language. Very often they could not be more mistaken
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