thread to cheer up shrromy
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 1:14 am
so i am reading focaults pendulum again cause i found it when i moved
and i have decided there is a level i wasn't aware of the first time
see i had assumed that the biographical stuff outlined the reasons and mentality behind participants in the primary plot, which it does
but i think now that it also compares the way people build self image out of fragmentary or unrelated events in their lives
i talked to ford about this last night and i became mor aware of how every level of the work can be seen in this way
and i enjoyed the book when it was just making fun of people's desire to see patterns and meaning in unrelated things and how this leads to absurd conclusions and relationships with truth
but its an even more enjoyable work when viewing all these events and in particualr the narrative style as an in-progress attempt to form meaning from an essentially meaningless collection of personal facts
it seems to ask me mayeb when we are driven and shaped by our past and the things we do, we are really just choosing to create meaning around those events and that meaning becomes our identity
just as a fake conspiracy ebcomes real when people act like it is
the made up identity becomes real when you act like it is you
even more, the idea that building on a fake conspriacy creates a reality beased on nothing and not secret stuff
building an identity on what you decided was your past or its meaning is creating yourself from nothing and not the past
anyway i wanted to share
and i have decided there is a level i wasn't aware of the first time
see i had assumed that the biographical stuff outlined the reasons and mentality behind participants in the primary plot, which it does
but i think now that it also compares the way people build self image out of fragmentary or unrelated events in their lives
i talked to ford about this last night and i became mor aware of how every level of the work can be seen in this way
and i enjoyed the book when it was just making fun of people's desire to see patterns and meaning in unrelated things and how this leads to absurd conclusions and relationships with truth
but its an even more enjoyable work when viewing all these events and in particualr the narrative style as an in-progress attempt to form meaning from an essentially meaningless collection of personal facts
it seems to ask me mayeb when we are driven and shaped by our past and the things we do, we are really just choosing to create meaning around those events and that meaning becomes our identity
just as a fake conspiracy ebcomes real when people act like it is
the made up identity becomes real when you act like it is you
even more, the idea that building on a fake conspriacy creates a reality beased on nothing and not secret stuff
building an identity on what you decided was your past or its meaning is creating yourself from nothing and not the past
anyway i wanted to share