[Inquiry] Re: Inquiry Blockage Amplifiers

[Jon Awbrey]

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IBA.  Note 2

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Arisbe List, Inquiry List,

Inquiry is an annoying, bewildering, confounding,
confusing, disconcerting, distressing, disturbing,
irritating, perturbing, uncertain process, at least,
genuine inquiry always begins that way.  If you think
anybody would do it for fun, then you have it confused
with something else, a form of pretend inquiry that can
but serve as an exercise, a rehearsal, a remembrance, an
attenuated, dim, watered-down proxy, and weak substitute
for the real thing.  One of the first questions that hit
me when I started to think about inquiry in a deliberate
way was "Can inquiry be social?".  The answer so far as
I know it is this:  "Maybe, it depends on your society,
but one thing's for sure, it is rarely ever polite".
This is due to the nature of reality, which ain't,
and not the fault of what any person would wish.
Reality?  Define that as what's here to stay.
Now, deal, get used to it.  Which brings us
full circle back to the telos of inquiry.

Jon Awbrey

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