From:
Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>
Date:
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:44:25 -0400
Subject:
The Truth
Oscar,
The quote from Campbell makes me think, if there is something to this
'truth' business then it is not the truth to the materials (I'd say,
if the material can be shaped that way then it is a 'legitimate'
thing to do with it and so it is 'true'). The more important 'truth'
is, are you making something true about yourself. Which, I think,
probably mostly means not imitating anything you have seen elsewhere.
And as I'm discovering, that is very, very hard to do. I can barely
imagine something truly novel. I am so steeped in my culture, and
what I have seen of other and past cultures that making something
really new seems virtually impossible. That is one reason why I am
interested in knowing what it is that characterizes our (my)
condition now and today. What is it that is truly and undeniably
unique to us? Thats why I'm always harping on this question, how do
homo sapiens feel (maybe subconsciously) about being on a teeming,
over-populated, globalized, computer-run, monitored,
incomprehensible, endangered, animal-less, overheating planet? Its
never happened before.
n
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