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roachboy · 06-28-2009, 08:17 AM

threads like this are kinda like that stupid box on twitter that asks "what are you doing?" to which the only possible correct replies involve either reading the question "what are you doing?" or some regress about thinking about thinking about how to answer the question "what are you doing?" twitter is less a social medium than a chance to see zeno's paradox in action. why i am writing this?

perhaps the only consistent way to speak about indifference is to talk about something else.
but now i've wrecked it because i am talking about talking about indifference. which means that i am interested in my indifference. so maybe i'm not indifferent about michael jackson, or maybe i am indifferent about michael jackson, but at least for the duration of this sentence i am interested in indifference, but not in any particular manifestation of indifference though now that i think more about it i am unclear about how indifference can manifest because that implies an action and indifference would more happen than be done, don't you think?
what would it mean to be actively indifferent about something?
would being actively indifferent about michael jackson's demise be a way to resolve this Important Question?
but that would make indifference about michael jackson exemplary and not a matter of indifference.

such a muddle.
so many problems.
i should drink less coffee.

06-28-2009, 08:17 AM	#23 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	threads like this are kinda like that stupid box on twitter that asks "what are you doing?" to which the only possible correct replies involve either reading the question "what are you doing?" or some regress about thinking about thinking about how to answer the question "what are you doing?" twitter is less a social medium than a chance to see zeno's paradox in action. why i am writing this? perhaps the only consistent way to speak about indifference is to talk about something else. but now i've wrecked it because i am talking about talking about indifference. which means that i am interested in my indifference. so maybe i'm not indifferent about michael jackson, or maybe i am indifferent about michael jackson, but at least for the duration of this sentence i am interested in indifference, but not in any particular manifestation of indifference though now that i think more about it i am unclear about how indifference can manifest because that implies an action and indifference would more happen than be done, don't you think? what would it mean to be actively indifferent about something? would being actively indifferent about michael jackson's demise be a way to resolve this Important Question? but that would make indifference about michael jackson exemplary and not a matter of indifference. such a muddle. so many problems. i should drink less coffee. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 06-28-2009 at 08:20 AM..