YEK Indo European meaning “to speak”
jewel
jocose jocular juggler jeopardy
joke : all in the yek
family,
sibling rivals.
“The construction and payoff of jokes and
the
construction and payoff
of philosophical
concepts
are made of the same stuff.
They tease the mind in
similar ways.
That’s because philosophy and jokes proceed
from
the same impulse:
to confound
our sense
of the way things
are, to
flip our worlds upside
down,
and to ferret-out hidden, often
uncomfortable,
truths about life.
What the philosopher calls an insight.
the gagster
calls a zinger.”
(Thomas
Cathcart
& Daniel Klein:
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...)
Classical
philosophy
(liberal art) was
not said to begin until
the mind
was
blown (nirvana: “he blows!”) :categories
castigated,
classifications castrated,
terms of
desire doused,
beliefs & biases
bowdlerized, prejudices paddled,
convictions spanked,
assumptions
chastened
with a stick so as to be stunned
stupid: HA!
just right for
study.
This excruciating process of
deconstruction
was called ELENCHUS,
and the state of
MINDING ultimately attained: APORIA—
no
pores, no
passage, no exit. A consummation
devoutly to be desired &
prerequisite to the
practice of philosophy (liberal art).
Hardly ever reached, however. You can
imagine the
resistance. All the sparkling
dialogue going on and on by Socrates
and his
peripatetic colleagues ending
in whimpers,
cicadae crackling overhead.
Not philosophy —only the prelude:
prior to
the
ludic (HA!) which commences when
there’s no
ground & not a
leg to stand on:
bottoming
bottoming
bottoming
bottoming
bottoming…
&
it’s
turtles all the way down to in-the-beginnngs of philosophy,
origins
originating
originally; authors authorizing
authority
authoritatively.
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