Saving Canada Part 2
When one is in a feedback loop it becomes impossible to resist the temptation to double down on the very things that created the loop in the first place. An example is demands: in a feedback loop demands replace proposals though a demand by itself can generate nothing but a counter-demand. I suppose this reflects the fact that in our day praxis is immediate. The truth is what is brought about in action. Action posits the very truth it seeks to realize. Alas, someone else’s praxis can be just as immediate as mine. Then we have two absolute and unmediated ‘truths’ in competition: two ‘little Hitlers’, to cite the Elvis Costello song, who seek to force the other to their will. If we belong to the tradition of philosophy (Western OR Eastern I must add) we cannot quite conceive it this way. Action must be embedded in reflection. This is why an activist once insulted me by accusing me of being a ‘philosopher’! This is a charge to which I plead guilty. A philosopher is someone who dissolves