Okay, I don’t mean to be annoying, but I’m curious if anyone else ever thinks this way.
Right after I read this: “Those who do it well are rare and valuable”, this is what I automatically thought: ‘Okay, so he’s setting himself up to, in the future, pursue a career in explaining, and this sentence/article functions as a tool of justification by making the value of the endeavor “objective” through writing it here’
That is, some part of me sometimes leaps away from the normal way of reading—which sees things as from the writer to yourself—and considers the writer as writing from himself to himself, unconsciously using writing as a selfish tool to shape the narrative of his/her life.
I think this has something to do with the fact that I am probably way too pessimistic about humans in general and think that much of what we say masquerades as something virtuous like reasonableness but is really functioning in a very self-oriented way to affirm and justify oneself and that one’s life is a good (enough) life.
Has anyone else’s thoughts while reading anything ever flinched in this direction?
[p.s. this has nothing to do with lukeprog, in fact he’s probably my favorite writer here]
Okay, I don’t mean to be annoying, but I’m curious if anyone else ever thinks this way.
Right after I read this: “Those who do it well are rare and valuable”, this is what I automatically thought: ‘Okay, so he’s setting himself up to, in the future, pursue a career in explaining, and this sentence/article functions as a tool of justification by making the value of the endeavor “objective” through writing it here’
That is, some part of me sometimes leaps away from the normal way of reading—which sees things as from the writer to yourself—and considers the writer as writing from himself to himself, unconsciously using writing as a selfish tool to shape the narrative of his/her life.
I think this has something to do with the fact that I am probably way too pessimistic about humans in general and think that much of what we say masquerades as something virtuous like reasonableness but is really functioning in a very self-oriented way to affirm and justify oneself and that one’s life is a good (enough) life. Has anyone else’s thoughts while reading anything ever flinched in this direction? [p.s. this has nothing to do with lukeprog, in fact he’s probably my favorite writer here]