Hence, this thought will never attain to a vision of the real, that is at the same time complete and crystal-clear. It will have to resign itself to plodding along the tedious and painful path of abstraction and of discursive reasoning in order to throw a bit of light on the data of experience. Never is the ego of the man in the world and exclusively thinking ego, for it is not in his power to strip himself of the complex of his sensations. These latter too, go to make up an opaque image, which clouds the vision of the mind and resists perfectly transparent intellection.(from The Philosophy of Being by Louis De Raeymaeker pub.1954)
Even the very intelligent are led from the righteous path of evidence based reasoning by the way they carve up the world. Bemused butchery is patent in this interview:
Dr. Cahill speaks out
Outside of the science which I am not qualified to asses there occur those wood notes wild of conspiracy theory which my lay ear can catch. She doubts the fact of excess deaths. So then we are supposed to believe that the pressing of an ice rink to serve as a morgue was a device to further the narrative and the array of freezer trucks sheer theatrical ebullience.. Dr. Cahill was fed the line that the focus on meat plants as centres of contagion and infection was part of a plan by Bill Gates to promote his cultured protein factories. She did not demur.
Lacing up our sensible shoes and tying a double knot we plod along 'the tedious and painful path of abstraction and of discursive reasoning'. I love the Gregorian chant cadence of Raeymaeker's prose as translated by Edmund H. Ziegelmeyer.
