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Originally Posted by SSC
For one, I have no idea what Fux meant with that, you don't give a historical context and I don't feel like researching it on my own. Speaking of which, it's a seemingly random statement and it has no depth because it can mean anything you want it to mean without any fixed context.
So all it really is, is an invitation to ramble on something which is as well uncertain and unclear. I'll pass, thx.
Seems to me you over-thought this and expected people to read your mind. You should've posted what you posted above in your first post, then maybe it would've been more interesting. Now it's not helping much, I have no idea what any of what you said has to do with Fux' quote at all.
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I guess you've never had an English class in which the professor made a statement and told you to freewrite about what it meant? I once had the line "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." Do I need context to interpret that? No. I discuss what those words alone mean to me. In this instance, I took my immediate reaction, which was "A fish has no need for a bicycle, therefore women can survive without men" and looked for the exact opposite interpretation, which was "A fish does not need a bicycle because it is an underdeveloped creature, and lacks the proper refinements to be able to appreciate a bicycle. Likewise, women lack the proper adaptation and ability to appreciate men." I did it in jest, but had my instructor told me to interpret it in a feminist context I would not have said that.
I know personal anecdotes and analogies don't matter to you SSC, but for the rest of the world that doesn't need everything clear-cut and totally explained 100% of the time, I hope that helps as to why the original post is actually useful, if one just takes a moment to think of what it can mean. Perhaps it is one-dimensional; perhaps it can apply to many disciplines. Perhaps it can be a comment on human nature - how we always see things in rose colored glasses and that nothing we experience seems to be as good.
Who knows? That's why we discuss things. If you are against proper discussion and discovering things (maybe not things about Fux or his quote, but things about yourself) then I would advise you to shut up and stay out of the thread.
Many thanks,
Just a thought,
Hope that helped,
Jamie
*EDIT* the part about shutting up and staying out is only for those who insist on refusing to properly discuss the topic at hand.