Please Don't Let Me Be Understood
By ice rivers
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The advice given to beginning writers is to write what you know. I'm not exactly a beginner so I might find success in writing about what I don't know and that is normalcy. If I were normal, I wouldn't be writing as much as I do. I wouldn't have the steadfast belief that something that I'm creating with words that stay might be of interest to others and may in fact change someone's thinking enough to change their behavior which might change their destiny and thus save ther world. In other words, I don't know what the hell I'm doing and why I spend so much time doing it other than to once more illustrate the concept of metaphysiction which gos something like this: when something becomes normal it's only because the paradigms surrounding that normal haven't shifted yet which means that whatever is normal is only normal at that second and has become old and abnormal almost at the moment that it is conceived. Therefore when I or anyone else is trying to describe "normalcy", we must begin with the assumption that we will be misunderstood because everybody's paradigms are going in slightly differrent directions which leads to the situation in which today's heresy becomes tomorrow's orthodoxy or vice versa.. We each undertand each other according to our own biases and therefore like the children's game of telephone by the time we get to our interpretatioin of what we think we have learned, it has devolved into somehing like "I can't stand the person I leaned this from" which of course isn't true but rather an interpretation of misinterpretatios that have been passed on with an ignorant degree of certitude as to resemble some sort of "truth" and/or "normalcy". If, however, you think you might have understood the normalcy that I have been trying to describe then that can only mean that I have succeeded in describing that "concept" erroneously thus passing on to you the kind of bullshit that you will pass on to someone else until it becomes a herd mentality and passes for normalcy/ orthodoxy which as we we have come to know is tomorrow's stupidity etc.
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Not bad Jerry, but it looks like one sentence? Possibly an achievement, I wonder what is the longest grammatically correct sentence that has been published in print, the longest word I know is supercalifragilisticexpialidotios I think. Probably been bettered by now americans are always better at everything.
And "etc" is a rather strange way to end a piece prose. They taught us at school not use “etc” especially in an exam paper. Is there a word "normalcy"? I don't find it in the Oxford Dictionary perhaps I'm missing something.
Some of your philosophy is above me. Food for thought.
Thanks, keep well! Nolan &
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