Pathos Activates The Eyes And

Pathos Activates The Eyes And Ears To See And Hear. At Times Of Pathos, Illness Opens Doors To A Reality Which Is Closed To A Healthy Point Of View.

I'm A Computer Freak. I'm On The Internet Every Night. Sometimes I Play Dungeons And Dragons With 15-year-old Boys Who Think I'm A 15-year-old Boy With A Weird Vocabulary.

What Happens Is That You Discover You're Carrying So Much Weight That 90 Percent Of What You Thought Yesterday You Are Thinking About Today And Will Think About Again Tomorrow. Your Mind Doesn't Change Because You Are Carrying Too Large A Load. So The Mind Is Caught. It's Seized By Its Own Structures. It Can't Consider Different Ways Of Thinking Or Doing Or Being Or Relating. It's All You Can Do With Your Psychic Energy To Keep Pulling Yourself Along With This Huge Bag That You Are Dragging Behind You.

Bangladesh Is A World Of Metaphor, Of High And Low Theater, Of Great Poetry And Music. You Talk To A Rice Farmer And You Find A Poet. You Get To Know A Sweeper Of The Streets And You Find A Remarkable Singer.

We Have New Media, New Forms Of Connectivity, And An Enormous Transference Of Knowledge. When You Study Evolution, You See That When New Genes Meet And Multiply, They Create New Contexts And New Species. In A Sense, The Gene-pool Of Knowledge And Of People Connecting At All Levels Is Literally Spawning A Kind Of Mind-pool Of Possibilities.