There's A Lot Of Strange Men In Cell Block Ten (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

The Wall: Johnny Cash

The Wall: Fyodor

http://www.authorama.com/notes-from-the-underground-4.html

 

[rockaction]

Yay! Bump.

 

[eoMMan]

My thought is that I have no idea what this thread is about.

 

[rockaction]

Ah, it's about Johnny Cash's "The Wall" and its story. Does the guy trying to escape prison try to escape or is he suicidal?

The title is from the song.

It's a lot like Fyodor Dostoyevsky's wall analogy in Notes From Underground. Do those who reject logic and mathematics essentially seal themselves to a suicidal fate, or are they practicing a freer type of will -- albeit futile -- than those bound by tautologies?

 

[rockaction]

You drink Scotch and wear a blazer with patches on the elbows, right?

I drink cheap vodka and wear pocket t-shirts with adidas mesh shorts.

I did, however, just order a boss pair of Ray-Ban tortoise shell Wayfarers with some cool green lenses, so I've got that going for me.

 

[rockaction]

Because I think King Prawn would appreciate a poll on this subject.

In between the one about the poop and NASA landing a man on the moon, but not anything but to the left of the one about The Bachelor. That would be quite the offense.

 

[Fennis]

a sphincter says what?

 

[SacramentoBob]

One day, some future society will look back on these threads and note the misunderstood genius of rockaction.

 

[rockaction]

One day, some future society will look back on these threads and note the misunderstood genius of rockaction.

One day? How about to-day?

 

[rockaction]

Bump. 

 

[McGarnicle]

The doctor is the boy's mother.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Leading the league in excellent thread titles & subject matter.

Dostoevsky is the best, you have to be tough minded and patient to absorb it. It's always been a pity the Russians have rejected their own prophet in terms of their policies, he is only loved by their oppressed, of which they always have a surfeit.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Live not by lies.

- Solzi

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolhenitsynLies.php?/articles/SolhenitsynLies.htm

 

[rockaction]

Live not by lies.

- Solzi

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolhenitsynLies.php?/articles/SolhenitsynLies.htm

I figure if I bump this it will just go away, but I just read this and loved it. I agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, what the truth is these days is debatable. What accurate scientific conclusions are is debatable.  Nothing is settled, yet we must march on with imperfect knowledge, struggling. And truth, sadly, may be not ascertainable to the laymen who cannot understand the complexity of that which is to be known (Maurile often touches upon this in his posts on the board) and hopefully put forward as a truthful and benevolent philosophy, political policy, or social theory. 

It might be that our nation is too large, our reforms too needlessly big to be understandable, our pluralities too great not to be divisive.

For us to be informed, for us to speak truth, or even for us to be silent while truth is enacted for us seems Herculean.  

But that does not mean we should not seek truth, nor run away from its implications. To wit: the bank bailouts were fascism; let us call them that. Movements towards environmental concerns and sustainability, in Clare Booth Luce's words, will be authoritarian; they will need to take the totality of the nation -- of the world -- into consideration; they will be totalitarian in spirit. 

We face hard questions and deserve plain yet nuanced answers and plain definitions and the courage to call that which is, is. We need better than identity politics, corruption, and a charlatan that calls something truth when the truth is simply bull#### and an image created in a PR room somewhere on Madison Avenue. 

I call bull####. 

But enough politicking; nobody will see this. I'm still interested in whether the man in the OP, knowing the implications of his escape, commits suicide or enacts free will for one last time.  And therein the possibility of a paradox; that both are true.