Much dusting and cleaning. A little light shoveling.
Woke this morning thinking of the A Good Idea at the Time. And felt this strange insight into the nature of what we label evil. It is part of the design, because anything in a positive feedback loop destroys itself utterly and does not survive. No species, no system. We need checks and balances. The big difficulty with obsessive/compulsive disorders and addictions, among other problems, is that the inhibitory parts of the brain don't work as well as they should. Pure altruism does not live long. Cancers are unchecked growth, nothing breaking them down. Not one good, one bad, but creation and destruction working together. Real good is when they function and change, real evil is when one or the other gets too powerful. When god and the devil are dancing, or trying to destroy each other.
Lay down our label-maker, and appreciate the whole cloth.
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that is the essence of post-modernism - the idea of the pharmakon, the poison being the cure. i know i loved this when i first started to learn about decontructionists. it's something that is easy enough to forget, but is a glorious ray of light when it comes back to us again.
man, i love your philosophical bent.
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