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| Chess One 2005-03-28, 5:56 pm |
| In another newsgroup Larry Parr has been diagnosed:-
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> Larry Parr *did* twist this to be some sort of statement about CL' s
> internal
> rules...in part because Larry Parr is mentally ill.
There's a lot of it around during this season.
In the public newsgroups there is so much psychological commentary
concerning the Fischer affair that one might think it was a convention of
unemployed shrinks sharing their anxt together, if not for the fact that the
commentaries lack any insight whatever.
Not insight into Fischer, but into themselves.
Personally I hope that bloke goes fishing in Iceland, gives up chess
completely including Fischer-random, and in fact any and all stupid games
[ROFL], and gets out of the house more, broadens his social experience, gets
himself a library card, studies Icelandic mythology or the tiny flowers that
grow there in its brief summer season, learns to cook, joins a Nordic
Yodeling group, buys himself a half-decent digital camera, obtains a puppy
and takes hikes into the interior - a little immersion in the natural
landscape is well-known to be restorative of the humours.
And I hope we can let him do it without our own cameras and writerly
excitations blotting the view.
In financial affairs we allow people to declare bankruptcy from lack of
further resources to meet current obligations, and to recover from literally
misspending their past. Surely laws are our lowest measure of social
standard, and we have higher social or cultural harmonics of them - so that,
in a quiet moment, free of alarums and the storms of the past - a man can
receive an inspiration that may change his whole life.
Another subject in public newsgroups is the topic of democracy, and like
Christianity some wag wrote: "Both great Ideas, when will they begin?" No
Paul without Saul. No representation without participation.
Freeing Fischer is not just about a bizarre 9-month confinement in a
Japanese prison, it is also a gestation period when we could also look at
why we were so passionately interested in him in the first place [pro or
con], and if indeed we ever gave a damn for the person and not just our
chess-hero, in current time of historically.
Did any insights occur to us in those 9 months about our own motivation, and
if it was to do with our own disappointment with the fallen-hero, the
champion who frustrated our expectations of how he should be?
And by such means we would also be free-of-Fischer; a self-imposed
confinement in a mean little space.
Phil Innes
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| jamesrynd@aol.com 2005-03-28, 5:56 pm |
| >one might think it was a convention of unemployed shrinks >sharing
their anxt together
Anxt?
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>if not for the fact that the commentaries lack any insight >whatever.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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>it is also a gestation period
Any more so than when? Stupid puffery is stupid puffery.
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>Surely laws are our lowest measure of social
>standard, and we have higher social or cultural harmonics of >them -
so that, in a quiet moment, free of alarums and the >storms of the past
- a man can
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>receive an inspiration that may change his whole life.
I think it's just gas. No, not the feeling of inspiration, but the
whole bloody statement!
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>in current time of historically.
Say what?
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>the champion who frustrated our expectations of how he >should be?
Your expectations. I never had any of him. You are speaking in the
collective, and I think this is reserved for royalty and lunatics -
take thy pick.
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| David Richerby 2005-03-28, 5:56 pm |
| Chess One <innes8@verizon.net> wrote:
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> In the public newsgroups there is so much psychological commentary
Now, now, do be careful not to confuse amateur psychiatry and armchair
psychology. :-)
Dave.
--
David Richerby Carnivorous Revolting Goldfish (TM):
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ it's like a fish but it'll turn your
stomach and it eats flesh!
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| Chess One 2005-03-28, 5:56 pm |
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"David Richerby" <davidr@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
news:cie*USGKq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
quote:
> Chess One <innes8@verizon.net> wrote:
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> Now, now, do be careful not to confuse amateur psychiatry and armchair
> psychology. :-)
Me? Why should I be 'careful'?
Compared with the subconscious dumpings and projections posted here, should
we be careful to resent a little light? Is it taboo to mention why people
create scapegoats?
I note that this morning's news is full of journalists interviewing the
world-class fallen chess-hero. I have yet to read any interview with the
man.
Who would you say is more obsessed?
Phil Innes
quote:
> Dave.
>
> --
> David Richerby Carnivorous Revolting Goldfish
> (TM):
> www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ it's like a fish but it'll turn
> your
> stomach and it eats flesh!
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| jamesrynd@aol.com 2005-03-30, 7:21 pm |
| >one might think it was a convention of unemployed shrinks >sharing
their anxt together
Anxt?
quote:
>if not for the fact that the commentaries lack any insight >whatever.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
quote:
>it is also a gestation period
Any more so than when? Stupid puffery is stupid puffery.
quote:
>Surely laws are our lowest measure of social
>standard, and we have higher social or cultural harmonics of >them -
so that, in a quiet moment, free of alarums and the >storms of the past
- a man can
quote:
>receive an inspiration that may change his whole life.
I think it's just gas. No, not the feeling of inspiration, but the
whole bloody statement!
quote:
>in current time of historically.
Say what?
quote:
>the champion who frustrated our expectations of how he >should be?
Your expectations. I never had any of him. You are speaking in the
collective, and I think this is reserved for royalty and lunatics -
take thy pick.
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