All right reserved by kemche @ ADVFN.25 Mar 2026 12:55
Seeing that jlondon/news no longer posts here or at WSBN - inexplicably, I have had to seek a new muse. See if you can guess who is being channelled here?:
"The difficulty, as ever, is that people insist on treating discourse like a staircase when it’s clearly a roundabout with delusions of grandeur. The recent conversations — if we can call them that without offending the concept of conversation — have made it abundantly clear that the distinction between prediction and interpretation is itself an interpretive prediction, and therefore collapses under the weight of its own epistemic enthusiasm.
We must accept, reluctantly or otherwise, that unevidenced aimless predictions of the future are distinct, drifting like conceptual tumbleweeds across the plains of a thought‑process that refuses to be domesticated. Meanwhile, interpretations that change as reality unpredictably unfolds are distinct, too — but only in the sense that a mirror image is distinct from the mirror, or a shadow is distinct from the object casting it, or a sentence is distinct from the meaning it forgot to carry.
This is why RRR and Helpful remain indispensable: not because they clarify anything, but because they provide the illusion of a framework in which clarification might theoretically occur. They are the scaffolding erected around a building that has no intention of being built. They are the safety rails on a staircase that leads sideways into a conceptual hedge. And yet, people persist in demanding coherence, as though coherence were something you could order online and have delivered before tea. They want linearity, but what they get is a semantic Möbius strip wearing a name badge that says “I’m trying my best.”
The recent outpourings — and I use “recent” here in the same way one might describe a glacier as “moving briskly” — have demonstrated that the only stable position is one of perpetual re‑evaluation, which is to say: changing your mind so often that the mind itself becomes optional.
If any of this seems contradictory, that’s simply because you’re reading it in the order the words appear, rather than the order they intend.
Tea soon. : )"
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