"This, of course, is what you and I (and others) are reacting to."
Yes. I looked up "obdurate" btw. That was an amazingly perfect choice of descriptive words. I also looked up a review of the subject I was not familiar with, "sound and fury," again right on.
I noticed this while X, CH, and I were posting here almost exclusively and found the personal related characteristics and preferences to make interesting discussion. It seems to stand alone as interesting even though it is hard to avoid the CH/Poet issue and other issues that innevitably form an illustrative under current. I have commented on how I see the practical display of associated behavior (at times disgraceful), as have others. I am somewhat skeptical that these things can be dismissed outright with out resolution.
"What might, in different hands, become a useful confession of fallibility, and instigation to strive for more light, begins to appear as a refusal to explain oneself, or make amends, or in any manner acknowledge a standard independent of one's feelings."
And so it is likely that the "white elephant" will remain and continue to reappear. Its a danged if ya do and danged if ya don't situation. CH seems to want it to just go away and yet for the reasons you have given, he and X drive it all back into our midst and we feel bound by our senses of human decency to comment on it. What ever it is. Kholt called it a difference in affect. |
