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[stormdog]

I think some of why I find the humanities so difficult to deal with and remain sane is that no communication can exist outside of a context, and the context is damned-near always self-contradictory. Objective truth is almost as hard to catch as a unicorn, and once you have it it takes a rare soul to recognize it as such. It makes me think of Peter Beagle's "The Last Unicorn;" a unicorn who was captured and imprisoned in a traveling carnival required an illusory horn on top of her real one for people to see her as something other than a white mare.

Artistic interpretation of objective truth is like that illusory horn. For most people, it seems to help them see and believe. For me, it feels like an unnecessary farce that distracts from a clear and direct understanding.

Society is still important to me. It's so important that I don't even know how to interact with it without mental distress. Electronics is much safer and easier.

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[cmcmck]

And this you tell to a historian? :o)

[stormdog]

I don't think I need to tell you that!

I was just feeling frustrated by memes on Facebook today, as I often am. I know people have good intentions, but there is so much ambiguity and abstraction that people aren't thinking about!