Proof: Proof Positive

That the world is the way it is is proof that no one has ever understood a word I’ve said.

That the world is the way it is, the human world, I don’t mean the natural world, is proof, proof positive, that no one has ever understood a word I’ve said.

Then again, that the world is the way it is, the human world, is also proof, proof positive, that no one has ever understood a word that Prigogine has ever said. Or Bateson.

Or Thoreau. Or Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare.

And certainly not Illich.

And absolutely not Jesus.

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That the world is the way it is just might be proof that 90% of communication is illusory. The phatic part works, but substance seldom transmits.