From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 12:46:34 MDT
Damien writes
> At 09:52 PM 9/21/02 -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> >Why would one expect four aspects?
>
> One wouldn't, damn it.
Sorry, didn't mean to push your buttons there, I
do seem to have an uncanny knack for that ;-)
> I could have said: `Here is a number of apparently
> orthogonal, antithetical ideological postures, but
> perhaps in reality they represent different facets
> or moments or levels of abstraction or "takes"
> of human experience'. A tetrahedron just happens
> to be convenient as the minimal object with different
> faces that are distinct yet in some respect
> unprivileged.
Yeah, well I was probing a little I guess about whether
you noticed that they were "four" *after* your insights,
or stopped at four when a sort of nice fit, esthetically,
had been reached. None of my business, really, and
irrelevant.
> >> Brown, for the subtle, usually hidden priority of genetic
> >> constraints and imperatives?
>
> >I'd think that this would underlie the earlier two
> >aspects you delineated. As for "brown" and "tetrahedron",
> >hmm, if it's going to inspire you, then I'm all for it.
>
> I could have said `yellow' if you prefer something
> where the sun *does* shine, but the metaphor in my
> mind was with soil and roots and antiquity, the deep
> evolutionary past.
Sorry, I wasn't objecting to *what* colors, still
laboring under the impression that shape and color
had inspired you, rather than the other way around,
namely that they fell out following your inspiration.
> Seeing blue and red coded as male and female is interesting and somewhat
> amusing, given that these are the classic British political codes for
> Conservative and Socialist.
Yes, I had noticed that irony, but in many places "pink"
*is* associated with little girl babies and "blue" with
little boy babies (unless I've got that backwards again, but
http://www.casact.org/pubs/actrev/may97/puzzle.htm has
"Specially matched colors suitable for babies, one unit
suitable for child of both genders, top is blue for boy
and bottom is pink for girl.")
> In Australia, just as matter of empirical fact,
> rather more female than male voters choose
> conservative candidates, proportionately.
It would be interesting to know if there is an explanation
for that, because I'm sure that it's the other way over
here. BTW, this is another case where I "pigeon-holed"
evidently, but I'm so stubborn that I still think that
I'm just after knowing what's going on ;-)
Lee
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