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MEANING of Meaning

                                      MAKING A DIFFERENCE

                                         that makes a difference

                                          & not just a difference.

                       

       Aesthetic =  differences               Ethic:=  difference that make a difference.

The word-play on “difference"” and how it is a different difference
depending on what hierarchical “level” we are using/ abusing it—is
 worth consideration,

It is typical of the dubious, double-ness of   language-in-use:
that it can  both clarify and  confuse,   depending on the
                 linguistic SAVVY of the  user/abuser.

ERROR and PLAY go hand in hand: contra-diction and paradox:
got to love them both or I’m screwed!  The play of “DIFFERENCE”
demonstrates the hierarchical & contextual levels in communication
that compensate for the inadequacy of words to indicate  the fullness
of  expression, converse-action, communication so that the ATTITUDE
and RECEPTIVITY for the players is  always crucial.

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It’s uncanny, if not seemingly unnatural, to think of rules and structures
responsible for the surface of talk going on. Can you imagine being in
conversation with someone, aware of the nouns and verbs, phrases and

clauses, the various general THEMATIC archetypes of Agent, Theme,
Location, Goal,Source, Instrument, Experience-er, Cause, Possession
that are In PLAY as the speakers speak? Of the Truth Conditions, the
Event/Status —the differences between Statement, Question , Command,
Expression going on. The Pragmatics: the hierarchical organization and
play of meaning in the context of the social situation not to m mention the
sentence itself?.

Can you imagine playing basketball—or watching—with a full sense of the rules and
structures and contextual situational demands of the game-going-on? Skiing with a
sense of anatomy & it’s role?  Walking in the woods with an awareness of autonomic
function respiration, central nervous system transactions…?

We normally don’t use the word MEANING  to refer to these automatic
and close-to-unconscious aspects of our living experience which in fact

DOMINATE us and our actions and decisions, true?

Someone once said our CONSCIOUS-ness is only the tip of the iceberg.
Someone else insisted: "No, our Consciousness is only a snowball on the
tip of the I’s berg.         Need we argue?

  

What we consciously call MEANING and meaningful, significant &
symbolic  is easily swamped and over-whelmed as we begin to inquire
and investigate and probe  and analyze the nature of the “rules” &
hierarchical  “structures” that provide the ongoing foundation of our
snowball antics, say.

It’s as if we move around in a bubble of collective and individual
consciousness  we don’t even suspect is a  bubble—sealed-in to
it’s own arbitrary terms of  shared significance.  So it’s painful &
awkward to think out of the bubble. Maybe not even possible.

                   

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           Plato called it a Cave. A Closet. A Convention

                          A Culture. A Consciousness.

“The man is clapped into jail by his consciousness,” says Emerson,
aware. that our MEANING confines as it defines,& it’s light obscures
the darkness which contains the possibilities beyond our conscious
notion of “impossible.”