Saturday, April 5, 2014

300- biting the error

I find these readings a little bit harder to comprehend. So forgive me if I interpreted some of these worlds wrong.

"The stuff of the psyche,' says Herakleitos, 'is a smoke-like substance of finest particles, that give rise to all other things . . . . it is constantly in motion: only movement can know movement." (44)
I feel that what is being said here is that someone cannot know something truly unless they have done it or experienced it. It would be the same with writing. You cannot know what it is like to write without writing something down. It would not be the same if you just noted it in your mind.

"As in lacking subsistence, mistaking violence for justice, separating use and exchange, always the crisis of value." (56)
This quote is riddled with meaning. I tried to break it down to everything that I could understand. First I wanted to think of value. What is to be valued overall? I thought this whole quote was then about delusion. How people delude themselves into thinking somethings are justified. If something is missing, then you are missing the value of what is lost. When you mistake violence for justice you are missing the value of human decisions and life. Then when you do not realize you are using something and only exchanging something of value or worth you are missing vital values that could mean so much more than what is realized.

"Both Alex and Thomas think it is when the sun sets that the moon becomes possible. But there it is: triumphant in the sky, hours before the sun edges to the lip of the horizon." (121)
This quote seems obvious. The moon is always in the sky even when you cannot see it. But there is also the underlying truth that the moon still has its moment in the sky that the sun does not interrupt. Maybe the two boys are referencing this time. They might know that the moon is always there, but they might just think that it is only important when it shines on its own.

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