Siproena Johnson

As Poetry Recycles Neurons

5/20/13

Seminar / Reverie week 8

Word Count 242

“It is not only that their arguments need to be located ‘in context’ as the saying goes (Tully 1988, 1993), but that philosophers draw, sometimes explicitly but usually implicitly, upon the empirical knowledge and cultural beliefs of the times and places they inhabit.” (p. 204 Rose, Abi-Rached)

Origins of a particular idea are a blur yet self-proclaimed definitive truths by title alone are given an upper hand.  I think of the text used almost as frequently as it is revised.  What if westernization did not turn into a plague with its first visit?  This is the word…because it is bound.  One could only imagine the course the new world’s original inhabitants could have made and sustained.  Still the human mind and its plasticity would eventually with time adopt a new mode.   When it is first written, the mind, fingers, eyes, and ink of one person portrays the events as they were for their time.  These developments are by one’s particular experience but lies waiting to be rewritten anew by another who sees their own perspective to applicably fit.

Some knowledge is not all knowledge and is often reduced or embellished with or without the intent of its initiator or reproducer.  Perhaps there is a self-gratifying motive when using implicit language when a story is reformed.  Reformed to dictate and impose this new writer’s ideas.  Who consistently sets aside the time to survey the source when what is printed seems askew?  Whose words and whose identity was originally portrayed?   It might be much simpler to initially follow the present system as it now stands but all encounter change with time.  Adaptations of cultural beliefs past a present are necessary for adaptation of the brain as one takes on more age.