Friday, July 3, 2009

Red shoes

In English curriculum of high school there used to be a story called the Red shoes which when worn gave the little proud girl incessant motion. The motion itself was static and tiring for the proud girl and she soon finds herself unable to stop, getting exhausted and regretting her pride, that caused her to wear the accursed shoes in the first place.
All of us from time to time don the red shoes and then unable to stop are carried away. The shoes move on their own accord and soon one is exhausted yet unable to stop. The dancing itself takes a life of its own.
The key to taking the shoes off is what a lot of people talk about including Gustafson and all of his predecessors of psychological/philosophical investigators. I guess the unspoken assumption of all work is developing an insight. An insight can be termed as an integration of non verbal in to the domain of verbal. Something that can be manipulated with words and organized in logos.
(logos meaning the rational mind that assumes things on the basis of differentiating). This would be in contrast to non verbal where all exists in eros or in a state of creativity and organization according to all inclusiveness. (Lewis Hyde)
Taking off the red shoes according to eros is something that a lot of people try. The people who stumble through life with the faith in their own capabilities and knowing that they might have to dance a long while before they feel like taking off the shoes themselves without having to dissect their personalities. Unfortunately, some succeed and some get destroyed.
The red shoes are dangerous things!!!!

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