tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post4586136299908635472..comments2024-02-11T09:55:50.468-08:00Comments on The Eastside View: Theater in Ashland, 2: Henry IV; questions of tasteCharles Sherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-75819680909193930602010-09-25T00:20:07.756-07:002010-09-25T00:20:07.756-07:00The perspicacious mind discriminates.
The narrow, ...<i>The perspicacious mind discriminates.<br />The narrow, lazy, less productive mind,<br />Content with categories, should it find<br />Itself in one of its rare thoughtful states<br />Shuts quick as possible, lest it go blind,<br />The shutter on experience. It hates<br />The perspicacious mind, which it knows waits<br />To take the measure of things left behind.<br /><br />Unable to discern the shades of grey,<br />Impatient minds, blind in the light of day,<br />Shun contemplation, which eliminates<br />(If not completely) erosion, decay,<br />Confusion among all events in play.<br />The perspicacious mind discriminates.</i>Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-30589802271562292692010-09-22T12:25:28.938-07:002010-09-22T12:25:28.938-07:00The perspicacious mind discriminates.
The narrow ...The perspicacious mind discriminates.<br /><br />The narrow mind distinguishes according to categories. <br /><br />Experience--raw experience--isn't categorical, though the mind keeps a complex filing system ready at all times to confirm the gestalt of familiarity. Without this, we'd be infantile forever. But intellectual maturity allows us to know--to be self-consciously aware--of how this set of predispositions works. <br /><br />People unable to discriminate between categorites--as in shades of grey meaning--tend to oversimplify reality. Really naive people tend to insist too much upon a few handy categories. Politically, it helps not to think too categorically.<br /><br />Aesthetically, I think an inquiring mind is the best guide. Curiosity, rather than a desire to divide and conquer, is best.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com