... down a hole.

 
 
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The vivacious verbosity of voluptuous verse has vexed the vehement vindicators of veracity and vanquished the virtuoso verbality of a venturous verbalist vested in the villainous vicissitudes of verbiage void of verification.  Thanks for the inspiration, V.

Ben, a fantastically philosophical individual with oodles of intellectual merit, a person I’ve had the pleasure of corresponding with in merely one, concentrated session, has tastefully treated the marauding metaphor of “Chess And The Grand Master” with undue fluency and insight in the comments section and I am roused to recompense. 

He was absolutely correct to take the “mating” aspect of chess at metaphorical face value.  But the concept of the ‘chess game’ extends to all competitive scenarios in which men find themselves in a fight for scarce resources of any kind, both tangible and intangible.

 Males may not coexist with other males without continually facing competitive scenarios in which they are forced to win or lose.    Occasions of relative “peace” are merely the “calm before the storm” in which the savvy male prepares for confrontation.  Peace is an illusion.  Life is a constant, competitive struggle for survival. 

Society has merely formalized competition with the “rule of law,” rendering brains the competitive advantage over brawn.  Of course many men will hesitate to acknowledge this reality. 

However, the luxury of apathy should never be mistaken for Utopia.  A fact: certain men, just like their female counterparts, are in the process of being “check-mated;” they're enjoying a warm bath of complacency, one that will be brought to a death-bearing boil by the fire of their own ignorance :p   
 


Comments

ben

Thu, 28 May 2009 01:21:18

ah yes, fluctuations between periods of peace and war; does war tend towards peace, and peace towards war?

growth, decay, growth, decay. perhaps during periods of peace, groups (and individuals) expand, grow and amass resources, identities, ideologies, only to transition from friendly competition to outright contention. perhaps the growth of two or more mutually exclusive entities results in an inconsistency, resolvable only by means of the elimination of one or more of the entities from the finite domain.

i find the logic of war (or conflict) to involve a contradiction between two or more sides, each entity conceiving of its own victory (continued growth) if and only if the other side(s) is/are annihilated. and so goes the cycles of being, becoming, and non-being.

something i'm toying around with in my head concerns "observation" and how much of what individuals (and groups, organizations, etc.) do and value relates to whether or not their existence is observed, and to what degree their being is observed; and also, what they themselves observe outside of their own selves: spectacles, experiences, etc. the ancient greek heroes, mythic or actual, valued the honor of dying in battle and becoming immortalized for bravery. producers want their products or services and name brands to grow in popularity, use, prevalence. academics seek knowledge either for its own sake or to be acknowledged for having contributed to discovering a piece of knowledge or both. and, each individual seeks to exist beyond death through producing progeny and seeing towards their benefit while preventing their harm. each of these general cases involve existence, observation, and observing, in one form or another.

the funny thing about solipsism is that it's one's own observation of one's own observing self, with everything and everyone else existing only for that one observing self and to that observing self. one lapses into the solipsistic view if one denies the existence of any other observers other than one's own observing "self". but anyway, "observation" is an undefined term that has something to do with consciousness, and so remains a puzzle at least for now.

 

JPF

Thu, 28 May 2009 13:20:55

Ben, pretty soon I'll have to give you administration rights!! I may be the style, but you're clearly the substance ;P Keep it coming, you're a maddeningly worthwhile addition to the dominion...

Remember Kids, boogers: Salty AND Delicious, taste GRRRREAT, less filling!!!

 

ben

Thu, 28 May 2009 13:28:24

ever read Iconoclast By Gregory Berns?

Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=KYwDWBJgcUQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Iconoclast+:+a+neuroscientist+reveals+how+to+think+differently&client=firefox-a#PPP1,M1

if so, let me know what you think; i'm going to pick it up at the library

 

JPF

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:44:38

That looks like a tasty snack. I would be interested to here the main thrusts after you're done digesting it...

 



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