tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224652730919207276.post8853822571844746514..comments2024-03-28T17:35:27.099-07:00Comments on Norm's Norms: Conflationnormsnorms.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12535995898255666585noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224652730919207276.post-11706093620465093152010-04-05T06:17:54.347-07:002010-04-05T06:17:54.347-07:00I couldn't have said it better...and didn'...I couldn't have said it better...and didn't.<br /><br /><br />Normnormsnorms.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12535995898255666585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224652730919207276.post-32257603657940214312010-04-05T04:04:19.583-07:002010-04-05T04:04:19.583-07:00I steal from myself all the time. The story becom...I steal from myself all the time. The story becomes the poem becomes the dance becomes the painting becomes the prayer becomes the hope and I cry. May the gods kiss your fingers. Let us rap together.hkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296312618266909443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224652730919207276.post-42698848680554946582010-04-04T12:19:32.068-07:002010-04-04T12:19:32.068-07:00When I was introduced to the universalist notion t...When I was introduced to the universalist notion that there was neither center nor fringe, I was initially dispondent. I had coveted my fringe status as evidence of its specialness and separation. But within the complex adaptive systems of the living, interdependence is unescapable, no matter our many false images of rugged individualists sloggy through the backwoods, coonskin caps flapping amid the Versace and lace, we might construct. It turns out to be one of those odd things Monty Python got right in the Life of Brian when Brian shouts out, "you are all individuals" and a lone voice shouts back, "I'm not."<br /><br />Everything is composite, and if you can show me anything that isn't I'll eat my dualistic coonskin cap, twice. Because if we were to think we were anything less than hybrid, we might find ourselves in senseless wars and divided by unpardonable partisan strife. And then once you get stuck in that space, you'll never be able to reclose your portmanteau.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04127560249550501052noreply@blogger.com