YOU NEED TO WRITE SOMETHING ACCESSIBLE (ACTUALLY, NO I DON’T) Colloquial verse (

YOU NEED TO WRITE SOMETHING ACCESSIBLE (ACTUALLY, NO I DON’T)

Colloquial verse (narrative) comes last, not first. I have just finished what looks like 25 years of work, and six to eight of it full time, to ensure I knew what I was talking about. History is full of ‘accessible literature’ that did no good whatsoever, other than to satisfy the cravings of those not needing conversion. I wanted to wait until I knew what I was talking about.

Our (my group’s) strategy all along has been to complete the work then produce a second version wrapped in literary references (examples pro and con).

I do not think it is my job or function to talk to the common folk. And I do not think it is possible for me to do it. I think it is much more possible for the followers who enjoy that to do it. And that has been our plan all along.

And furthermore, your intuition is false. It might be true for populism under democracy, but it won’t shift the world.

Instead, look what nearly incomprehensible scribblers (like me) have achieved when we produce rigorous systems of thought – we live – largely unconsciously – in a society formed almost entirely by the writings of incomprehensible, often counter-intuitive, in their era-revolutionary, ‘scribblers’.

And those want to organize people use those scribbles to do so.

And arguments roll downhill.

Just how it is.

I originally did my work in public, becuase it was the only way to get decent criticism in a timely fashion. I kept doing it for that reason. And I continue doing it because I learn a great deal from those who follow me (and increasingly less so from critics).

So your intuition is incorrect. That’s the evidence. Few people know who Spinoza was, no one has read darwin actually, or keynes, or acquinas, or hume, or kant. Or Marx for that matter. But we all live in societies constructed by the scribblings of these people.

Power seeks argument.

It is up to some of us to produce the weapons that those who can exert power seek.