Sunday, February 10, 2008

A Little Less Conversation/A Little More Coherence...Please

You seem to have a knack for picking up insightful culture phrases.  Chris Rock's sense of "cap value" was funny, clever and tangent to the whole "red in tooth and claw" discussion of violence that we are have been exploring........kinda.  I  offer this because it was damn hard to figure out what you were trying to say in your last post.  It started out with as an opening sentence:  

Malignity a new fangled or ancient evil in nature and it raises a special problem.

My guess is that "Malignity, a new fangled or ancient evil in nature", may have been a title to a Burke/Hume/Hobbs  essay that you had read and then adapted as a topic sentence.  Regardless of how it came to be, the syntax, or lack thereof, obscured meaning.  You then rephrased some heavy moral/political philosophy stuff that sounded a bit like Kant (screw the consequences/it's a matter of principle) which you had alluded to in an earlier post.  Next you, I guess, tried to make the dry stuff a little relevant by the Rock reference.  Finally you end with, what I presume was on your mind; namely: 

  I mean sometimes I look at the present state of humanity and think can somebody please do some kind of pure play, you selfish S O B's.  I almost consider malignity as a genetic adaptation a re-emergence of a more primitive brain in need of a little respite from the senseless onslaught of corporate America greediness.  

If your watching TV, you will know that, this week, a guy in Kirkwood, near where we lived in St. Louis; who, it would seem had the same take, did do a pure play.  He not only orchestrated his own eternal respite, but took along some enemies for company. Whether he did so as an act of Kant principle or motive revenge, it wasn't good for the company

Anyway, if I may be so bold!  Keep the thoughts simple/the syntax certain/the humor everpresent......john