Sorry, this is one of those internal Rach connotation things I get into.
To me practicality, is doing stuff because you're supposed to. Whereas pragmatism is about doing what is necessary. Lots of shit that is practical, isn't actually necessary, it's just codified and habitualized. I place a high value on pragmatism, on doing what you have to when the situation arises -- I like being strong, and efficient and clear in that manner, and I like other people who are also that way. But just being practical -- the very sound of the word is drab. And I find, historically, that I've often presumed pragmatism in others, when they just had that sort of habitualized following of the rules.
I don't want to deal with what's practical. I want to deal with what's necessary and do what's extraordinary. And as long as the necessary stays part of the equation, it's cool.
It's not a "I won't grow up" thing so much as that I've raised myself more or less, and will continue to do so, entirely in my own image, even if that image is comprised of an immense number of borrowed, warped, adjusted, fractured and inspired components.
And yeah, the linkage thing is in everything. Everything everything everything. But I think it's why creative people can be a little nutty. It's like being too smart, but in a very intuitive way, and when you combine those things, of course we live happily and not always so happily somewhat at sea.
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Date: 2003-04-14 10:23 pm (UTC)To me practicality, is doing stuff because you're supposed to. Whereas pragmatism is about doing what is necessary. Lots of shit that is practical, isn't actually necessary, it's just codified and habitualized. I place a high value on pragmatism, on doing what you have to when the situation arises -- I like being strong, and efficient and clear in that manner, and I like other people who are also that way. But just being practical -- the very sound of the word is drab. And I find, historically, that I've often presumed pragmatism in others, when they just had that sort of habitualized following of the rules.
I don't want to deal with what's practical. I want to deal with what's necessary and do what's extraordinary. And as long as the necessary stays part of the equation, it's cool.
It's not a "I won't grow up" thing so much as that I've raised myself more or less, and will continue to do so, entirely in my own image, even if that image is comprised of an immense number of borrowed, warped, adjusted, fractured and inspired components.
And yeah, the linkage thing is in everything. Everything everything everything. But I think it's why creative people can be a little nutty. It's like being too smart, but in a very intuitive way, and when you combine those things, of course we live happily and not always so happily somewhat at sea.