Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Boundaries



Is it really useful to think of this me as a something having a precise boundary? 

Desire seems to be the most powerful when it posits the possibility of bringing us into contact with radical otherness. This radical otherness is better characterized as a continual process of becoming the other. Identifying the other first as in some way distinct and separate, and then becoming part of them, plays out the desire to escape bodily limitations. It is also by the pull of similarity.

We think of stones as things with clear boundaries. But these are only that way to us. It is the way we think. If we could pass through them unhindered as the neutrino is supposed to do, then we might not notice them at all. 

'Right' and 'Wrong' are essentially arbitrary. 

Perhaps we should question the boundaries society puts up for us and investigate whether they can be transcended. 


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