Definitions, definitions
It hasn’t worked.
If anything, I’d have to conclude that it is human fallacy to misunderstand and misinterpret anything and everything one happens to encounter in a very human, if befuddled, attempt to understand what one has the mental/ emotional/ spiritual/ what- have- you capacity to understand.
In fact, it surprises me quite often when, upon stumbling across a particularly verbose yet somehow familiar article of some persuasion, it takes the inner workings of my cerebellum a few moments too long to process the realization that I was the author. Ergo, if I confuse myself so easily, how can I not expect to be horribly misrepresented by my fellow human beings?
I’ve no interest in annoying, befuddling, or infuriating the masses- but it is my misfortune to have been born with the more baffling and irritating qualities of figures such as Socrates and Nietzsche- and without their brains.
And so, from this point, I will no longer be irritated by those who misunderstand me as they cannot help but do so. I will instead sigh inwardly and attempt to decode my thoughts with even more intricate, confusing, and altogether useless methods until they give up in utter frustration and leave me to my myriad rambling contemplations.
September 02 2007 04:11 pm | confusion and philosophy and psychology and words
