Comments on: Books Glorious Books!

By: Claire Millington

Claire Millington — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:15:16 +0000

Not sure I always quite follow your argument Kord, but yes, there is a theory I dimly recall, about how ideas have a kind of darwinian transmission with the most convincing ideas being accepted by individuals and transmitted to others, the strongest ideas then become part of ‘what everybody thinks’ until a new and stronger idea challenges it.

By: Kord

Kord — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:02:01 +0000

Aha… The ramblings of the overworked i feel after reading that through again.

what the hell am i talkng about? conversation indeed… hows that then i ask myself!
I suppose it’s at least partly right though. Your skill with literacy just had me going off on one haha…

I suppose i shall get myself to sleep and leave the writer with the writing.

I just make car seats.

By: Kord

Kord — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:54:12 +0000

It has been a while since i fully submersed myself in anything as social as the internet but, rather than simply “comment” on your posts, with your permission, i’d like to converse of such things as you display for us moderately interested perusers of said internet- you have a way of wording your diary-esque posts that would, for some of us, be instant conversation starters…

For instance.

Books? Dangerous? definately. In that they may contain knowledge. It is true what they say about knowledge being power and power being a currupting force but the true coruption of the written word? I beleive that lies more with the the characteristic that also creates the majority of their appeal. They are the gateway to the human imagination. A door into the mind.

The pen IS mightier than the sword but is a sword not simply another way of changing things? Changing the minds of those who would, if not faced with it, oppose the one holding it? And similarly one small sentance, well written, can change the views of thousands and those altered views will be passed on through other media until it effects tens of thousands and so on and so forth until the world is a different place for it.

And how is this a ‘currupting’ force?

Well.

If every man woman and child in existence today were to join consciousness into one being. All knowledge amassed. All opinions voiced, weighed, and resolved. The majority rule…

If this one perfect representation of humanity was to be given a small button that would destroy all of existance itself…

But i digress. The corruption of the written word?

The hand that writes it.