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Bitter perfume
Jan. 6th, 2007 11:59 pm
Currently at UW: 1.6. High today: 10.1, at 3 a.m. It's been more and less slowly falling since then. Looks like the end of the ridiculous temperatures for a while, but the Environment Canada 5-day and the Weather Network 7-day are both slightly to significantly above normal across the board. The Accuweather 14-day has a sharp turn for the colder around the 14th/15th.
After spending most of the day not knowing what the hell to do, I started in on Young, and found that, once I started writing about what's wrong with his piece, I became almost enraged by it. I don't know whether this is the right attitude to be writing out of, and it has me wondering how much of it is a matter of "professional" resentment and rivalry. I don't know. I think, in the abstract, that it should be enraging. (But righteous indignation is so pleasing. It's the fundamental paradox of Kantian morality: a good will is one which is moved by duty rather than inclination, but what of the inclination to duty?) He says such stupid things, about something that is so beautifully good, to which he just pays no attention--and about other things, like in the parentheses here: "There is nothing wrong with horizons of disclosure in general, or with the horizon of equipmentality in particular. We could not engage in successful communication without them, could not survive as practical agents without the horizon of equipmentality. (This is a point that seems to be missed in the universal paranoia directed toward 'epistemes' or 'regimes of meaning' displayed by Foucault and Derrida, the demand that they all be 'deconstructed.')"
But, then, I wonder, how much of how much that bugs me, how much of my wanting to stick it to Young for saying things like that, is because I know that I have written stupid things of the very same kind--and have tried to stop doing that--but maybe have tried just enough to be pleased enough that I've tried to continue doing it with an easy conscience--but maybe am doing it right now, to Young--for which I'm writing this, now, as a weaselly confession, to absolve myself....
I hope, anyway, that I'll finish whatever it is I've started here without dragging "Babette's Feast" into it, and then start anew with that.
After spending most of the day not knowing what the hell to do, I started in on Young, and found that, once I started writing about what's wrong with his piece, I became almost enraged by it. I don't know whether this is the right attitude to be writing out of, and it has me wondering how much of it is a matter of "professional" resentment and rivalry. I don't know. I think, in the abstract, that it should be enraging. (But righteous indignation is so pleasing. It's the fundamental paradox of Kantian morality: a good will is one which is moved by duty rather than inclination, but what of the inclination to duty?) He says such stupid things, about something that is so beautifully good, to which he just pays no attention--and about other things, like in the parentheses here: "There is nothing wrong with horizons of disclosure in general, or with the horizon of equipmentality in particular. We could not engage in successful communication without them, could not survive as practical agents without the horizon of equipmentality. (This is a point that seems to be missed in the universal paranoia directed toward 'epistemes' or 'regimes of meaning' displayed by Foucault and Derrida, the demand that they all be 'deconstructed.')"
But, then, I wonder, how much of how much that bugs me, how much of my wanting to stick it to Young for saying things like that, is because I know that I have written stupid things of the very same kind--and have tried to stop doing that--but maybe have tried just enough to be pleased enough that I've tried to continue doing it with an easy conscience--but maybe am doing it right now, to Young--for which I'm writing this, now, as a weaselly confession, to absolve myself....
I hope, anyway, that I'll finish whatever it is I've started here without dragging "Babette's Feast" into it, and then start anew with that.
