We are cursed with incomprehensibility, and will accept anything incomprehensible as an explanation. The madman will always be labeled a “prophet” and will be defended with violence because the state of accepting incomprehensibility is more painful than just dying.
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Reply to Reality is an openness that we can never fully grasp. We need closures as a means of intervening in the world. | Post-postmodern philosopher and critic of realism Hilary Lawson explains closure theory. by IAI_Admin
We are cursed with incomprehensibility, and will accept anything incomprehensible as an explanation. The madman will always be labeled a “prophet” and will be defended with violence because the state of accepting incomprehensibility is more painful than just dying.