Why I sometimes hate English classes...

[Nanon]

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Ok. Now, I consider myself to be a pretty good reader. But sometimes, when reading an assigned text in this english class, I feel like what I'm actually reading is the meanderings of someone who's taken 3 hits of clean window-pane. (And if you don't know what that is, ask your folks! 😉 ).

Can someone PLEASE explain this to me? She's talking, ostensibly, about technology and its effect on... something...

"Similarly, it seems that one of the greatest dangers of acting in the mode of making and within its categorical framework of means and ends lies in the concomitant self-deprivation of the remedies inherent only in action, so that one is bound not only to do with the means of violence necessary for all fabrication, but also undo what he has done as he undoes an unsuccessful object, by means of destruction." Hannah Arendt, "Irreversibility and the Power to Forgive"

Good luck! Thanks be to the diety of your choice that this kind of stuff isn't on the MCAT!



Nanon

 

[Nanon]

By the way, the final for this class is in t-minus two hours...

Wish me luck!

Nanon

 

[DrBodacious]

Lol, you're probably in your exam right now, but my take on this is that destruction is always a part of change.

An oversimplified example is that you must "destroy" a blank canvas when you paint a picture.

You are "depriving" yourself of the past material when you make something of it and you need to try to "undo" the negative effects of this change. Of course this change may bring about new problems etc., therin lies the "danger". Even by making changes for the better, you sometimes dont get to enjoy the changes but are forced to deal with the little things that went wrong.

??

I could see how forgiveness could later be worked into this...