How much critique does a thing need to be … a thing? How often does an object need to be objected? Can critique be without?
One cannot deny to criticize insofar as the denial reflects a critique. More so, if the critique resembles an objection accepting it means to affirm the critique but objecting an objection might provoke the accusation of accusing.
Anyway, I object objecting your objection.
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here… I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.
Richard P. Feynman, from a transcript of BBC television program Horizon in 1981. To be found in Jeffrey Robbins (ed.): The Pleasure of Finding things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman. Allen Lane 2000. Also in: James Gleick: Genius: Life & Science of Richard Feynman. Pantheon 1992.
[Ratta thinks that, sometimes, it’s good to see things from the right side.
And what is your point of view?]
the truth remains a whore, and whores are honest even if some may be conniving, but such is the nature of truth. in other words, truth is illusive.
— cairo otaibi, 2006-08-02
Would you agree that everything is a matter of quantity or am I asking for too much?
This may not be a water-tight paradox but I like it nevertheless.
Attention meets whore next door. There is a sign that reads
Beware of attention!
Attention: Why does your sign say “Beware of attention”?
Whore: Because attentions are mean.
Attention: Take it down or I’ll beat you with it!
Whore: See?
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Radical change . . . means to cut the roots.
Radical attitude . . . is based on roots or cut loose.
Radical trust . . . is an old tree.
Radical living . . . means . . . you are free.
Radical nonsense . . . this is.
