We rented The Elephant Man (1980) a couple of weeks ago and subsequently learned that it was Mel Brooks who hired David Lynch to direct the film. (See also the Wikipedia entry.) Who better to influence the portrayal of the circus!
The film moved me and helped me to understand a little better what is dramatized in the Comments Section of so many posts in social media, something I’ve tried to deal with elsewhere.
“All reasoning is thinking, but not all thinking is reasoning.”
Irving M. Copi, Introduction to Logic
Side by side, rough, quick freehand in Procreate with Pencil by Fifty Three of this (my own) iPhone image.
Credit for the title goes to my wife, Annyth.
Without some sort of tranquilizing intervention, our inner dialogue will mimic the outer dialogue around us; after all, that’s how we acquire language in the first place and “develop” it subsequently. I see this too as related to mitote, which we’ve explored elsewhere here at portfoliolongo.com.
There’s inner mitote, and there’s outer mitote. We’re up to our ears in mitote. Look at what happens metastatically within the comments section on many posts, the countervailing avalanches of polarized opinions mistaken for fact.
What triggers them? How do we tame them? How do we work through them? How do we work around them?
Yesterday’s Valentines Day gathering at Greenstone near Mariposa, CA was a celebration of the heart. When you’re new to a place, you catch life already in progress: the Heart Party, our generous hosts, the other guests, and its setting hit home in more ways than one.
A quick, morning, freehand sketch in Procreate based on an iPhone photo that I took yesterday when nobody was looking.
For those who need an orientation, click here. Applying this to buying a house, I’m afraid, is up to you.
I was so groggy last night when I posted this that I neglected to add my comment, my take on the notion of regulation. So, here it is: even our exceptions and exemptions are regulated.
