I hadn't really considered that exceptional communication might be for the purpose of making complex things more apparent in their complexity, and therefore more challenging to understand rather than easy to understand. Anyone committed to that end is automatically going to have fewer readers than the one who is willing to construct a one-dimensional myth. Thank you for making me think and for your demonstration of skill as a writer.
"Swept into the rush of commodified, one-click myth-making, who still has time for meaning-making? 'Myth abolishes the complexity of human acts,' Barthes wrote. 'It organizes a world which is without contradictions because it is without depth.'"
Hmmm... I love it when I read something, think I understand what it is saying, but am then left with the uncomfortable sense that I may have missed the point entirely.
So I read it again and come to the conclusion that it is modeling the very complexity of life, society, and my own conundrums.
The point is not to understand it I tell myself. The point is to sit with the riddle and appreciate it.
That's what I'm sitting with now after having read your wonderful piece several times.
I hadn't really considered that exceptional communication might be for the purpose of making complex things more apparent in their complexity, and therefore more challenging to understand rather than easy to understand. Anyone committed to that end is automatically going to have fewer readers than the one who is willing to construct a one-dimensional myth. Thank you for making me think and for your demonstration of skill as a writer.
"Swept into the rush of commodified, one-click myth-making, who still has time for meaning-making? 'Myth abolishes the complexity of human acts,' Barthes wrote. 'It organizes a world which is without contradictions because it is without depth.'"
…i used to love fiction…now i live it…
Hmmm... I love it when I read something, think I understand what it is saying, but am then left with the uncomfortable sense that I may have missed the point entirely.
So I read it again and come to the conclusion that it is modeling the very complexity of life, society, and my own conundrums.
The point is not to understand it I tell myself. The point is to sit with the riddle and appreciate it.
That's what I'm sitting with now after having read your wonderful piece several times.