http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/paging-dr-maslowpaging-dr-maslow-16699 Comments for "Paging Dr. Maslow...paging Dr. Maslow" en http://dagblog.com/comment/178086#comment-178086 <a id="comment-178086"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/paging-dr-maslowpaging-dr-maslow-16699">Paging Dr. Maslow...paging Dr. Maslow</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The "compulsion to compare" must be genetically encoded in us. It is the waving flag in the semaphore of our shared experience.</p> <p>The crisis point Spalding Grey talks about demonstrates how how the personal is sometimes not politics at all. There is a show only one person gets to see.</p> <p>I think the act of comparing is what Kafka's Metamorphosis is about. One can lose the battle with all the things that make you this and that. You can't blame anyone for avoiding the fight at all cost. Gregor Samsa fought it but lost. If Gregor had managed to have gotten out of his apartment that day, the result would have been different. Either he didn't put up enough of a fight or too many odds were set against him. At the very least, Kafka is underscoring a certain kind of vulnerability, different from other kinds: A comparison, if you will.</p> <p>Maybe our problem is not the act of comparison itself but what we place side by side.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Sun, 19 May 2013 22:41:07 +0000 moat comment 178086 at http://dagblog.com