Accuser. Adversary
Reading Thoreau: one wise-guy crack after another.
Do you have a problem with “society”? If so, you
might find Thoreau inspiring. If not—he may seem
arrogant.
It’s difficult to criticize society-as-a-whole,
the human species-as-a-whole, human
nature-as-a-whole—because we are
in IT. Where do we stand to
separate ourselves and
criticize the whole?
(Hagiographics: Measure. Assess. Evaluate.)
“All Cretans are LIARS,” said Epimenides, the Cretan.
If he was right, then he was wrong. If he was wrong,
then right.
Called the “liar paradox” and philosophers like
to fool with the problem it poses:: Self Reference.
What I'm saying says everything about me and nothing
about what I'm talking about except in manners and
conventions of speaking. As my old man would
admonish from his "Moral Rearmament" days:
"When you point your finger at another,
3 fingers pointing back at you."
A student in a former class announces to
us 8 o'clock scholars: THIS BOOK SUCKS!
Does that tell about the book or about the student,
stunned stupid and ready for study?
Another in Fiction Class would declare
( refering to the day's assigned story:)
Whatta Buncha Crap! –a lurid
illumination of the fiction or
lighting up himself, his
lucid schemes ?
A “satan” is a prosecutor in the “ancient” Jewish court.
His job—to assess & accuse as adversary.
The court jester was appointed by the king to mock
and ridicule some petitioner's petition.. If the petition
could stand the acid test, maybe it'd be granted. .
Dirty work.
satanic & dia-bolical: to throw it across,
throw it apart, antithetical, antagonistic.
How seeming negative the necessary notion of
accuser and adversary—scrutinizing the
propriety of a Job, decency of a citizen,
strength of a convention, coherence
of culture and custom. Assessing
local food for thought.
Bring in the clowns.
Where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
xxxooo, Henry David Throw
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