What if the emperor was wearing clothes?
Why wasn't the idea of clothing enough? Was the tailor really trying to fool the emperor? What if that is only how the story was spun afterwards, because no one, including the emperor, got the concept? (and no one wanted to be the fool?) Were there really no clothes, or were the public's eyes not sensitive enough to see them?
Why is it sewn into the US cultural fabric (thin as it is) that the unknown is something to be discovered, that the empty should be filled, and the infinite be bounded? When did these become heralded actions?
When did negative space become negative?
Why is discovery seen as heroic rather than humbling?
Why do we feel the need to answer all the questions and fill in all the
3.11.2007
Time Change and Negative Spaces
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i would answer, but my cleverness got the better of me.
eggplants?
you were going to say "eggplants", right?
"fill in all the EGGPLANTS"
something about "why is the unknown something to be discovered" and "when did negative space become negative" both strike me as rooted in capitalism. really. i wish I could prove it to you outside "Leave your comment" world.
Or are you being sarcastic?
In order for money to be made, not just brake even, or trade, or barder, but in order to make money make more money things have to change like a cancer cell.
maybe it isn't capitalism but the illusion of progress. the illusion of a constant growth as being healthy.
egg-HEADS. HEADS. Close though.
the illusion of constant growth as being healthy...
that is a chewy one.
my teachers would say that "containment leads to illness" and "money is just energy" (which, out of context, can sound awful... but i think you get it. it flows, it generates, it attracts, and lack of it stems from lack of it) But accumulating and storing tons of it greedily... well, that can't be good. And i am reminded of another wise saying...
mo money, mo problems.
And then there's that 8 year old who weighed over 200 pounds in the UK. No, growing ain't always healthy.
well, that's if you think of growth as a tangible, quantifiable object. Growth as an experience is just natural, its speed or slowness, gain or loss, I suppose is the illusion/self-imposed part. The event within the experience I imagine could be unhealthy or healthy...but growth (from it) would seem to need a bit of conscious effort, if you aren't talking about the pituitary variety.
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