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Produced on the Bill Maher Show, September 21, 2012. Sitting left to right:Chris Matthews, Rana Foroohar, “Roger”, whom I do not know and who does not get a name tag throughout the run of the clip, then Bill Maher and Salman Rushdie.
If I blog too quickly, I may revise my posts to provide greater perspective or expanded reference.
On my old blog, which I will preserve through 2013, at least, I’ve written about Hitchcock’s The Birds — as I’ve posted a clip on this blog too — as a meditation on inexplicable evil. The URL for that has been referenced at the end of this post.
From Bill Maher’s show, it’s refreshing here to hear some interest in moving from squawking about a challenge, and it is a mountain of a challenge, my favorite metaphor for it being “K2” in recognition of the position of my Pakistani friends standing before the same, to discovering ways to address it.
Those following this blog know my way in: language drives thought, and the creative principle in language resides in the invention of its poetics. Those poetics then serve as maps to a metonymy in mind, i.e., the ways in which symbols weigh together with both great stability — or there would not usefulness to making noises with our mouths — and areas of vulnerability by way of archaic language (old machinery for the times) and the appeal of honestly born new language technology.
We “English” cannot do the work needed.
Our friends within the cultures of other languages can.
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