Is K basically just asking us to remember that our brains are not ours alone? Like, I feel like he appeals to objectivity, in a way; like, we take our brains very personally, but when you think about it: yeah! There is an element of all this that has literally nothing to [do] with my preferences, my desires, ect. It's just... the brain; ya know? Our brain.
A parent's attachment to her adult children individually is isolating each of her adult children and preventing the flowering of relationship between the adult children themselves.
Prognosis? 🤔
K is not poetry to romanticize over nor is he an example by which you should or shouldn't lead your life, but indeed he was insightful about so many practical affairs in our collective lives.
Someone insults us or flatters us, and we deflate or inflate.
We're gullible, and words trigger us.
How does one receive the word with all the context of the word and simultaneously live free of the word? How do you live without the whole "network of language" gradually crystallizing and becoming impenetrable?
Perhaps, the word, "sensitivity," makes sense here.
Is there thought without the word?
Is there a quality of intelligence that is not of thought, not of language, not of the image, & not of the symbol whatsoever?
As always, all are welcome to participate in dialogue with this question here.
What place has memory in sensitive action?
Additionally, what is correct activity?