Friday, August 1, 2014

hello - hello

No true individual is but inwardly multiple.  In this the thinking unit differs from the unit of measure.  The undifferentiated, single self is necessarily unconscious except by reference to others, and this puts the identity outside the skin.  The individual is ever talking when no other is around, inside the skin.  And in such individuality, and by the same cause, is the root of fair-mindedness.

2 comments:

didaskalos said...

Thus in the multipolar community is the discovery of the singular; among its own, mere potential perhaps ?

Derek Alexander said...

Yes. It is useful to find units that are telling and not accidental, but that are not of such permanence or totality that they stop the flow of thought. That's progress both in understanding and in the capacity to understand. And it also suggests that what one is considering is worth the trouble. Real units that don't fix their surroundings into stillness are a common element of fertile environments.