Mole
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These forums are replete with misreadings. Quite often we don't understand one another, and sometimes we don't want to, leading to a plethora of misreadings.
We often comment on this and seem to think it is a bad thing. And we try and try to make our meanings clear to one another.
And it is this attempt to be clear and arrive at agreement that creates our conversation.
But perhaps we are mistaken. Perhaps we should take it to the next level. Perhaps we should revel in misreading. This does not mean we abandon shared meaning. But rather than sharing the meanings of our readings, we share the aesthetic of our misreadings.
This means looking at the world with different eyes. No, instead of looking at the world, we taste and touch the world, we listen to the world and dance with the world.
It means abandoning the privilege of the eye, and democratising all the other senses. And so we sense everything at once with our ears, our eyes, our finger tips, our nose, our ears and our dancing feet.
At first we seem overwhelmed by our senses and nothing makes sense, until finally we come to our senses.
We often comment on this and seem to think it is a bad thing. And we try and try to make our meanings clear to one another.
And it is this attempt to be clear and arrive at agreement that creates our conversation.
But perhaps we are mistaken. Perhaps we should take it to the next level. Perhaps we should revel in misreading. This does not mean we abandon shared meaning. But rather than sharing the meanings of our readings, we share the aesthetic of our misreadings.
This means looking at the world with different eyes. No, instead of looking at the world, we taste and touch the world, we listen to the world and dance with the world.
It means abandoning the privilege of the eye, and democratising all the other senses. And so we sense everything at once with our ears, our eyes, our finger tips, our nose, our ears and our dancing feet.
At first we seem overwhelmed by our senses and nothing makes sense, until finally we come to our senses.