Did I tell you about?

Wow.

Flabbergasted.

Twice.

And the unconscious link to what we are talking about.....

I was walking the dog and found myself whistling Gerry Rafferty's Stuck in the Middle. If memory serves it was something about being at record producers' meeting and thinking - fools to the left of me and clowns to the right.

And I realised I was going to have to talk about something important, which no one actually gets, regardless of how I try to explain it.

I am slowly realizing that I am surrounded by Objectivists. I know I know. This is an old chestnut, and it doesn't bear fruit. But I would like to explain my perspective on things.

I do not think the world consists of objects.

I showed my dog a picture of the Marantz 1060 and received no reaction. I then asked her if she would like a bone. She then walked to the bone-cupboard and waited.

See, my world is formed by; and based on; and is impossible to get out of: Chit-Chat.

When I was a child, my parents said to me - Don't go into the woods, dear little child of ours, because there is a bottomless lake there. Maybe they should have taught me to swim, but this worked. And when I eventually did go into the woods - I could never find the damn lake.

Everything we see and touch has been formed by people. I am a people ist and not an object ist.

Mountains exist in our perception, cos our forefathers said - Look Mountains. In other words they carved the world into bits and pieces which only exist in the carving.

Measurements are but chit chat within the rules of that tribe.

Some see a Helmholtz resonator and others see a piece of jewelry.

When we describe an object (eg this was a bad amplifier) we are actually describing our own experience as told to us by a myriad of earlier exchanges with other people. Yes, each one of us has a unique perspective (standing point), but we can only talk through our mother language which is actually the cacophony of us all together.

So we are all objectivists. We just forget, that the only object is us. And we are only looking into a mirror. Us.

Now I am going to close my eyes, my ears and my mouth.

Zig