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Mar. 18th, 2009|07:36 am |
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all I'm saying is: not languages are equal in what they have represented in them and what they don't. Latvian will never have the 26 words for different snow the way Greenlanders have, but, for thinking-reasons, it's probably a lack that, even on the level of word for a thing - for, example, don't we agree that being haunted exists? - we are short of things, so even on the level of vocabulary we don't acknowledge, don't register, the existence of things, thence the poverty of thinking, or reflection [that's what this thingy illustrates to me]: and the too ready loosing of the impoverished mind = the scarcity, my theory, of mental resources, nothing else = our own peculiar kind of backwardness, which, among other things, results in Olaine syndrome from your following entry [don't think I'm making myself too clear, but you'll have to make do]; all I'm saying the predictability of such Latvian response to a self-made [for it is first of all our self-made one] calamity makes me want to cry; we are growing into second most depressed = self-hating nation in Europe after Hungarians. And that's our male rather than female problem; the females have their own kinds of negativity. But men - they don't know how not to lose that mind. so, of course, you may go with your stereotypical [sorry, but that's what the 'interesting' thing is] responses to crisis wherever it was you sent yourself to, and we, in our turn, will keep losing the mind - stereotypical in our own way. we don't know how to change, but change is imperative, now more than ever: in this case, change would be at least attempting to think of one response as a way out, of taking the risks and trying to invent a personal and then collective way out, but there is no impulse. no impulses for people who listen only to their own navel - socially autistic. That's us. |
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