There are things you have read which have profoundly changed your mind and the way you think. More often than not, these things you have read are wrong.
This is not meant as an accusatory or derogatory statement. It is just the nature of texts - they are wrong about things, and flawed in the ways which they are right. It goes with being an imperfect medium.
Still. You did read these things, and they did change your mind. They must have done something right.
The thing about texts is that they do not have to be perfect. Or even right or wrong. They have to mobilize what you know into new thoughts, new directions and - possibly - new ways of living.
All fiction is wrong. All fiction is a lie.
But that's okay.
No comments:
Post a Comment