If there is a point at which you think this essay encourages closing off that examination I would very much appreciate a specific argument of where you think that line was crossed.
Not so much a line as an accumulating feeling as I was reading that it was leading the reader into a narrowing tunnel of abstractions with a decreasing mooring to reality, projecting shadow pictures onto the wall of Plato’s Cave instead of leading the inhabitants into the sun. Which is, at the same time, the thing the article is describing.
Not so much a line as an accumulating feeling as I was reading that it was leading the reader into a narrowing tunnel of abstractions with a decreasing mooring to reality, projecting shadow pictures onto the wall of Plato’s Cave instead of leading the inhabitants into the sun. Which is, at the same time, the thing the article is describing.