I recently listened to a 12 hour treatment of Greek philosophy. I had many reactions, of course, most of which I will likely never post here (that is another topic), but did want to find that I found Socrates’ thoughts on writing his ideas down interesting. Effectively, his position was that ideas live, and that writing them down calcified them in some way, such that they could no longer interact with others in a living way once he was dead. Dialogue was no longer possible, and he preferred being forgotten to being misunderstood.
This is an interesting perspective.
Is not all writing dead, and resurrected by the reader? I was wondering about some of my own writing, and how I would respond to questions about it. I would have to rethink myself to the place where I wrote it, which I hope would be regressive, since I would hope I have grown since then (yesterday; five minutes ago).
Each resurrects writing in their own way, even the author. I myself can’t remember what I believed 5 years ago, not in detail.
Can there be an honest writing of the future? I don’t know.
Talking out loud again. May make sense, maybe not. Gibberish is sometimes the idiom of the open.