Hi Diana, Squad,
PLATT
>I suggest we challenge objectivists to prove to
>the world why this is so. ["beautifully intuitive" is
>the way to reality and truth]
DIANA
>Their answer is that it is a subjective thing and consequently cannot
>be proven. It's the wrong answer, but that's their answer nonetheless.
I think that part of Diana's frustration comes from trying to pose
rhetorical question to dialecticians. If I understand Diana correctly,
the real question she is asking is simply this:- "Why do certain things
feel good?"
A great piece of music is inspiring. You notice it when you first hear
it, and your appreciation deepens each time you hear it again. You learn
each theme, each note, each harmony and each transition, and still you
know that those moments of tension and passion will be repeated with
full intensity. Each time you hear the music, you also remember hearing
it before and relive some of the previous experience. There's a joining
of the music, you, and your memories all rolled into an ecstatic
resonating dance. To me this unified resonance is the Quality event. I
resonate with good feelings from good music, good food, great novels,
good lectures ... and each time I remember those good things, some of
those resonances live again.
Any academic objectivist is a fraud to discount the things that feel
good. Doesn't he see the manicured lawns and rose gardens from the
window of his ivory tower? Doesn't he enjoy the fine wines and concerts
at the conferences he attends? The good feelings induced by these things
resonate with and reinforce his "objective" thoughts. They pervade his
memory. Who can remember a fine lecture and fail to remember the
circumstances?
I wish I were a poet, and maybe I could write this beautifully. To walk
the map of objectivism is to walk the road and never look over the
fence. How can that feel good?
Jonathan
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