I apologize for sophism
I apologize for convincing words
I apologize for verbosity
I apologize for appearing right
We all should apologize:
-Apologize for seeking to be “right”, win an argument
-Apologize for seeking to convince others and ourselves
-Apologize for seeking to be wise, sound wise — rather than act wise, make wise decisions, quietly
-Apologize for wanting answers instead of the truth
-Apologize for loving your “right” reputation
-Apologize for ego that just has to be right
Every talker is a cunt
Every politician is a cunts
Every writer is a cunt
Every priest and every speaker — a cunt
+Every salesperson is obviously a cunt
That who uses words professionally is a liar, a cunt, and not a truth-seeker, and not serious, not a serious doer or serious about life-living
You shouldn’t be “good with words”
It’s only means you’re good at bullshitting, lying to yourself and others
You shouldn’t be “convincing”. Truth doesn’t need your support.
You don’t have to explain anything to anybody. You don’t have to be able to explain WHY YOU THINK WHAT YOU THINK. Don’t confuse knowing-that with knowing-how
Obviously CONVEY your truth. That you DO owe to everyone around you — and the world.
But you don’t have to explain it
You definitely should not attempt to be convincing with it
Obviously don’t be vague on purpose. Obviously don’t be alienating on purpose, “polarising” on purpose.
That is merely the other side of the same coin — all this pretending you’re beyond hollow debates, average fool’s comprehension, and needing to convince anyone, “win over” to your side.
You’re beyond the aforementioned vanity — or not. Don’t make a pointless showing out of it.
Say what you believe in the CLEAREST TERMS YOU CAN
With ABSOLUTELY NO ANIMOSITY.
If there’s but a spark of emotionality — you’re already distracting from the message. Potentially fatally.
You should apologize
I apologize
I have been beguiled by words time and time again
Beguiled by concepts time and time again
Beguiled by poetry time and time again
Beguiled by rhetoric time and time again
Beguiled by sophism time and time again
Tis the sin of the wise and of the foolish
-Foolish and mad who can’t tell obvious nonsense from obvious facts
-“Wise” who can’t tell their concepts from reality
Tis the sin which starts when we’re foolish and then magically takes a new form when we become more “knowledgeable” and “learned” and intelligent perhaps — except we’re only more stupid
Doesn’t matter how “intelligent” and “sophisticated” the explanation is if the premises are wrong.
Doesn’t matter how “intelligent” and “sophisticated” the reasoning appears if the conclusion is wrong.
I apologize for sophism
For every time i wanted answer (when I wasn’t ready for it)
For every time I used many words to conceal my own lack of understanding — rather than reveal the understanding with the few true, utmostly accurate words
For every time I held words precious — believing I grasped the meaning behind them, the very meaning they were hinting at — but could never truly reveal
I apologize for being a fool
There are answers to our problems written out there somewhere — but we can’t have all the answers, can we. We have a problem — we try to solve it. We have ideas about it. Right or wrong. Only to find that someone else solved it for us — and ours contemplations were all reinventing the wheel, or just silly nonsense
Conversely:
I apologize for being a philosopher
I apologize for having read something, learned something, and having taken it too seriously
You should do more — then LEARN MORE AND THINK MORE
FUCK what you learned. It’s only words.
DO something instead
Words are tools
Tools to approximate the truth,
That’s NOT how the writer and the politician and the speaker use them
But that’s what they are for
Words are tools
Tools to solve problems
That’s not how soft-sciences academics use them
But that’s what they are for
I learned to write so as to think better,
Thoughts written down were made clearer,
It cleared a lot of the nonsense in my thought, nonsense big words which substituted meaning,
And when my thought cleared up — now my writing was clearing up
Now I saw nonsense in this form which was supposed to be clearer in the first place
I saw vague words filling the void of ignorance
The more words the less understanding
Of course if perfect understanding was the criterion to speak then I never would have uttered a word
But I apologize for sophism
I apologize for bullshit
I find less and less patience for it
I have less and less attachment to it
Because I see less and less value in it
Less value in the feeble approximations of what actually is
Why speak — if you could just DO?
Why speak — if you could just DO?
Let us all together renunciate:
-arguments and debates
-rhetoric
-useless knowledge
Let us all be
more quiet
more precise
more thoughtful
more truthful
more frank
more humble
more simple