Posted by I am not mentally ill
I just see stuff that no one else sees
says almost everyone occasionally
You are mentally ill, says the genpop onlooker
If he says, “I just see stuff everyone could see”
I don’t give a damn what you call it
He ain’t ill, he’s just Dionysus, says the artist
I people watch the people watchers
telling me they say things they don’t, really
What they have is a predetermined context
which conveniently casts themselves as Apollo
for the sake of appearance
There is right and wrong, black and white
you can’t actually deconstruct anything
when deconstruction is just tearing up context
Context is everything
No, it’s not. Those rocks and those trees
are not context
Indeed they are. If you were to speak tree
it would tell you “you already know me
Tree and object are labels for understanding
Tree begins with a word
the word is made fecund by more words
But context doesn’t erase object
No. But object has no value without it.
The mathematician sees patterns in the chaos
The artist sees patterns in the chaos
Left brain/right brain
The old philosopher appropriates the math
of the mathematician, the psyche of the psychologist
the job of the Behaviorist, the folk songs of historical
America to write that all we have are objects and context
that no qualia exists
Well, that may be so. But I don’t give a shit.
Without a doubt we are both different.
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