[lbo-talk] Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing

[// ravi]

On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:56 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> <snip happens>
> GINSBERG: That our own minds are so vast that we can wind up contradicting ourselves without having to freak out about it. It's very similar to what the poet John Keats said about negative capability. He said the quality of a very great poet like Shakespeare was his ability to contain opposite ideas in the mind without an irritable reaching out after fact and reason. Meaning that that part of the mind which judges, and irritably insists on either black or white, is only a small part of the mind. The larger mind observes the contradiction, and contains those contradictions. The mind that notices that it contradicts itself is bigger than the smaller mind that is taking one side or the other.

Super awesome stuff, thanks for sharing.

Not quite the same thing, but:

Neils Bohr: "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

	—ravi