We do not discuss anything with each other in any sincere and genuine, authentic, communicative interaction on any subject of real or deeper significance than the most trivial passage. Less than what almost strangers exchange as polite greetings when changing past each other in public places. Furthermore we have not broken bread together, nor had a glass of wine. We have not met for coffee. We have not quaffed ales in an alehouse. Much less had found any opportunity to offer or accept any dinner invitation. We have not achieved anything together, either in the realm of ideas or productive of any sort of realities, in any area of life, such as involved us both to any real intensity of mutually agreed to purpose. Of course your intention is that we never shall engage in any of that type of behavior with each other, so you deign to tap me on my virtual shoulder and whisper in my virtual ear the word "friend". An entirely safe gesture as it involves no fear of any sorts of commitment whatsoever. It becomes the cheapest of cheap acts. I used to fall for that trick, more often, bracketing out my skepticism, my philosophical doubts, rather than doing the opposite as would have been recommended by the great philosopher Edmund Husserl. I should have known that we would never actually break bread, quaff ale, have dinner, or enter into any genuinely meaningful discourse with each other, much less collaborate, co-conspire, mutually facilitate any sort of genuine productive success, effect, achievement, as we might choose and desire to do, in any embodied reality of relation. You would never better my chances to my own purpose or goal. You would never really facilitate or make possible any such that I would have sought. Then again you never sought that from me either. It was utterly empty of real social meaning. I should have phenomenologically "bracketed out" your purely virtual "existence", as something I have no need of, no love for, no desire to know, and realized fully that it has no real meaning to me, the same as i have no real meaning to you. In fact your virtualness, as a purely virtual being, is the antithesis of meaning. Thus I return to phenomenology, in terms of a social phenomenology, seeking a truth in relation that is based on bracketing out, eliminating, false instances that the human mind is sometimes urged to accept and even to cling to, but which must be let go. Even if that letting go is painful, as it returns us to our true social poverty, of immersion in the superficial and the meaningless, always disguised as the essence of being and meaning. In effect the latter due to false intellectualizations, subverting more genuine social meaning.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 08:50:58 +0000
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