Friday, November 12, 2010

OXYMORONIC NATURE OF HUMAN CHARACTER





Any characteristic that is not becoming its enantiodromian opposite can't be true.

Thus, it must be that to be focused is to be sentimental, to be
helpful is to be domineering,
money-crazy means uninterested in finances,
uptight is a variant of laziness,
explosively loving is to be
paranoid but watchful,
bookish and yet athletic,
well-traveled means to love to stay at home.

Adventurous means uninterested,
pinchily organized is yet thoughtless,
dirty means fastidious,
unscientific: a lover of nuclear physics and astronomy!

Unconcerned about appearances is to be fashion-crazy,
Nazi of neediness means nice,
careful is promiscuous,
a helpful humanitarian is yet nosy,
dextrous implies clumsy,
angry implies loving,
loyalty is evil,
objectivity indicates the presence of the surreal.

1 comments:

jh said...

kirby i think you're blurring the distinction necessary for us to comprehend paradox you conflate and enjamb like a drugged up beat poet only you do it with broader cognitive strokes like trying to do calligraphy with an old straw broom and then you end up saying nothing this is really nothing i mean nobody can understand this nobody and begin to comprehend the convoluted discombobultions of psychotic cognitive distortions supposedly inherent in a paradigmatic scheme of chaos dressed up in orderly clothes
and for the life of me i don't know why you can't keep it simple i mean jeez o pete dude you contort and inflate and actually deplete concepts of meaning altogether you're like a semantic balloon popper it can't be this goofball strange can it i mean all this yingity yangity stuff i suppose before long you're going to be lighting incense to a chubby guy with a peaceful look on his face or is this just some demented theory relating to the homunculus syndrome well know that i've thought through that a little i tend to think that "oneness" is the goal and insofar as this goal eludes us we are locked as it were in a plight of existential duality whether we like it or not

the soul is inherent in the form of the body

analogy is the fundamental cognitive impulse

we all contend with varying degrees of expendability

my desk is a mess
even for me i have to admit
any order i might try to defend
in regard to my desk would be ludicrous indeed

why do you suppose they call them tragic/comedies

clashing of cymbal
tooting of horn

what did the schizophrenic say to the cop?:
sir
you know
i'm really beside myself

jh

 
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