Pre class for 4/8/10

Well after reading the very interesting Difference reading some interesting things definitely come up for discussion. One of the issues that came up with me was the fact that Derrida felt that the western tradition has a very partial and common sense view of the nature of writing and speech and writing….well seriously let me pose this question, given the nature of most of the population, say 65% of today’s americans and write something that is completely cryptic and “beautiful” and see if they understand any of it. Yes I agree there is an underlying problem in the way that we are teaching and valuing language and speech in america, but at the same time there is a time and a place for the kind of existential mumbo jumbo that a good deal of these theorists in this paper are going on about. A language exists so that one person can communicate with another, seemingly we have these for different cultures and there are gaps that can be bridged for trade and everything in between, but at the end of the day all speech is is vibrations in the air. I know this makes me sound boorish or some “stupid Americano” but at the same time I am just interpreted at why some of these people want to cast the first stone on the West. If you go to any bar in Manchester or Liverpool good luck understanding their good ol cockney accents and slang, but you never hear a word about that do you? So funny to me, all these people would have to do would be to sit down and watch a guy Ritchie film and they would want to go and commit suicide….they write in ways that make it so hard to understand you almost don’t want to read it, so if the way they write is the measure of a writer isn’t it counterproductive if no one wants to read what you have written? We have come to this bridge a couple of times but it seems to lead to the same place every time and I would simply like a little bit of closure on the issue. Well I was just thinking….Oh yeah you guys should definitely go see REPO MEN…very depressing movie but offers a very interesting model of what could happen in the future, I will have to mention it to DC and see if there are any more correlations.