3 February 2020
At the bottom of a
drawer, I found a mirror from Norway, given me as a child. It had nothing to
reflect there: decades of happenings passed it by. Typically a mirror should
reflect yourself; this reflected only the wood. If the mirror gave a Norwegian
reflection, would another give a different national reflection? Or do nations
reflect?
How do we know
what happened? What is actually happening or what will happen? Is it the
responsibility of facts to convince? Do we scrutinize motivations with a
scrubbing-brush?
There are
witnesses. Witnesses, as anyone who works in court will tell you, vary in
reliability, suitability, and being in the wrong place at the right time. Mary
Magdalene is the most reliable witness we have, though she wouldn’t have been
allowed to testify in court. It’s not who you saw; it’s who you are.
Many arguments,
political or religious, fail to reflect their surface subject. In the end,
they’re about something called “plain sense”. Overriding scholarship,
scientific analysis, history or philosophy, “plain sense” derives from the
interpretation of a dominator. It reflects himself, his view of the bottom of
the drawer. It’s plain only to those who buy it.
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