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If my memory serves me, which it is wont to do less and less these days, then I am right in remembering that it was Ludwig Wittgenstein who encouraged his students to give up philosophy and do something more useful. He believed that the constant questioning of what we know, what is real, etc. etc., was a kind of neurotic misalignment of one’s understanding. His goal was to get his students beyond this self-involved dallying so they could become constructive members of society. My particular obsession was with the philosophy of language. I cannot say that I was good at philosophy, but I was drawn to it, and although I’ve given it up I think that, even if I am not a particularly constructive member of society, I do now, at least, make things, instead of just talking. I create graphics for clients, I make a garden, I raise a child, I make pies, and I make things with and about language and knowledge and perception and time, etc. etc. Although I believe no one would question the sanity of pie-making, there is a case to be made that art-making is just another neurotic misalignment, but I can’t help it. Laughing helps. Maybe.

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