Ambaguam--Beginning at the End

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They, those souls you have roiling in paradise, they too want to be free. All that you have made yearns for freedom. You are capable of all freedom. This is what it will profit a man: A French Queen and two kingdoms that he will hold onto for a few years and then leave to the chaos of a near-permanent war culminating in the Elizabethan police state. Why I Keep Doing This. Because if I had anything to say I would have said it by now.

That sentence, "she is dead," should sound odd--like a joke or a pun or an oxymoron. It should sound amusing to hear. If she has died then, having died, there is nothing she is. There is only was. We can conceive of a language in which it is possible to say "she died," but not "she is dead" without a smirk. There may be such a language.

Ambaguam--Beginning at the End

It's impossible to "be" dead. But here's the point: Cultures without writing are cultures without history in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But that does not mean that they are cultures without a past. What it means is that the functions that we currently divide between the essential forms of storytelling that we call history and fiction are combined in a single form of storytelling that we call now call myth.

This is not to say there are not different types of myth: I said, What is the function of literature? He said, to burn down the house before the others get in. All the Reasons to Support Trump. Earlier I noted that Trump supporters are driven by fear. I wasn't happy with that analysis.

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I've done some more thinking on the subject. There are a number of reasons why a person might support Trump. But they all come down to one of two fundamental failures. Either a failure of morals or a failure of intellect.

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One could support Trump because one believes his policies will increase prosperity. But one could nonetheless believe it. One could support Tru. We want to believe that we use our language to promote our morals or to describe our situation—we want to believe that the origin of language is a desire to know or a desire to do what is or what is right in reference to what is. But it turns out that our language, in its whole compass, exists in other ways from other causes that at best are in tension with these which we want to believe or at worst simply overwhelms them and uses them for cover, like the wolf who kills the sheep and wears its.

How do you know this?

Why do you assume it? Can you ask whether your assumption is true without first having an understanding of what beauty is?

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