Unleesh@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Perhaps it might be called an "ideal type" because CONstructing a BwO also
> involves a constant DEconstructing of the strata, in a continual destratifying
> process without which strata tend to form and obstruct the BwO. Ideal as a
> mathematical limit we approach and as we get closer, we experience more and
> more intense effects, yet from which we are always being slightly rebounded by
> the rip tide of stratification .... As much as we would all like life to be
> just a sheer flow of ecstasy at all times, we don't experience it that way all
> the time, not even those of us who are ecstasy connoseurs ... so in that
> sense, the BwO is "ideal" ; however, i think the point is to construct
> situations (social, psychological, natural) where that limit is approached as
> closely as possible PRAGMATICALLY under the circumstances. It's always a
> pragmatic operation.
>
> (un)leash
Thanks for this beautiful description of the BwO. I do still feel a little
confused, however. I guess my question is that if the BwO is constructed, and if
it can be blotched - which I understand to be something that happens in the
constructing process (?) - then o.k. I see how there is an 'ideal' successful
constructing/attainment of the bwo, but isn't the 'ideal' located in the desire/or
better still in the becoming? I would have thought of the ideal more along the
lines of an ideal state/or an ideal desired state that is perhaps
found/discovered/created in the construction of a positive BwO, rather than view
the BwO 'itself' (which of course it isn't a self) as an ideal 'type' ???? does
this make sense?
Chris