AM after class 8/29/06

What will they say about us when we're gone?

"In language there are only differences." -says De Saussure

As Postmodernists, shouldn't we think about how future generations will interpret what we're not saying?

De Saussere said that everything is a text. Everything can be broken down, turned inside out, upside down, re-written, re-interpreted. Ofcourse. We only have five conflicts to tell anyway; man vs man, man vs himself, man vs nature, man vs society, man vs machine. Naturally we have to re-invent everything to keep things interesting.

Postmodernists aren't the first to complain that we're not paying attention -but it seems to me they're the first to provide us with an outline so we may pay closer/better/faster/more accurate attention. -hmmm, how very postmodern.

Aren't we, as humans, capable of tuning things out not only for social purposes, but for biological purposes as well? If we were physically capable of being attentive to everything all the time, what would happen? Or maybe we ARE in fact, taking it ALL in, all the time, but simply cannot fully communicate what comes across our senses.

How can we possibly begin to express, truly, what things/one means to us? Words are only words and until we tap into the senses, have a codified description and universal definitions, then we must begin to pay closer attention to the things that are not said.

"What is important in the work is what is does not say." Macheray.

My grandmother died last week; her work is over. But what is it about her time here that will resound with/in me?

It won't be just her words.