11-27-2012, 10:54 PM
I seek to find some common ground. To give an example, you know? Of something we're all mostly familiar with. For critical thinking. The symbols of Christianity, for instance, and the social implications of them. Religious issues that figure in the symbols of Blake's poems, including the one given as an example in this post.
The issue we all seem to agree on about "zombie" poets is that they think they're writing poems and creating out of their own ideas and feelings, when it's mostly stanza-looking blocks of what might be their ideas and feelings, but only because they haven't had any good opportunities to have those things tested.
How do they come to have those things tested? Unless they stray from their comfort zone? And most will never do that, unless some shocking event takes place that in some way conditions them in another or other directions? For instance, if one of us, or anyone, goes to their comfort zone, and says something they don't understand or like, they simply will ignore what you say or think you're some weirdo. And a weirdo is scary and embarrassing. People don't want a weirdo in their comfort zone. Nor do they want to say anything that might be considered weird, and be thought of as a weirdo.
I think these are obvious things I'm saying. And obvious, familiar things are most often taken for granted. They're obvious truths, or truisms. We have to destroy the truth without lies.
The issue we all seem to agree on about "zombie" poets is that they think they're writing poems and creating out of their own ideas and feelings, when it's mostly stanza-looking blocks of what might be their ideas and feelings, but only because they haven't had any good opportunities to have those things tested.
How do they come to have those things tested? Unless they stray from their comfort zone? And most will never do that, unless some shocking event takes place that in some way conditions them in another or other directions? For instance, if one of us, or anyone, goes to their comfort zone, and says something they don't understand or like, they simply will ignore what you say or think you're some weirdo. And a weirdo is scary and embarrassing. People don't want a weirdo in their comfort zone. Nor do they want to say anything that might be considered weird, and be thought of as a weirdo.
I think these are obvious things I'm saying. And obvious, familiar things are most often taken for granted. They're obvious truths, or truisms. We have to destroy the truth without lies.