[Sigia-l] Findability

[Derek R]

The problem with 'findability' is, of course, an assumption -- that
something is good. 


However, in actual practice: 

We do not seek or desire something because it is good.
We deem a thing good because we seek or desire it.


Compare the results for the words 'scan' and 'find' with this in mind to
see what I mean. One involves 'judgment,' 'pre-determination,'
'fixation,' 'disappointment,' and the other remains open, and does not
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1) "scan" -->
http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=roget&words=scan

2) "find" -->
http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=roget&words=find


I repeat, again, Pierre Bourdieu's notion of 'habitus:'

"...systems of durable, transposable dispositions, structured structures
predisposed to function as structuring structures, that is as principles
of the generation and structuring of practices and representations which
can be objectively "regulated" and "regular" without in any way being
the product of obedience rules, objectively adapted to their goals
**without presupposing a conscious aiming at ends** or an express
mastery of the operations necessary to attain them and, being all this,
collectively orchestrated without being the product of the orchestrating
action of a conductor."

(Source: http://staff.bath.ac.uk/hssjam/povertyofagency.pdf , page 5)


So don't forgot to 'humble yourself' into culture -- so that culture is
not opposed to your goal -- namely to not adopt foreign customs and
culture, which are opposed to your goal:


"...lay aside all avarice, sexual desire and love of fame [...] speak in
accordance with the understanding of the crowd [...] derive enjoyment
from luxuries only in so far as is necessary to preserve our health
[...] seek only as much money, or as much of anything else, as is
necessary to preserve our life and health."

 -- Spinoza, "Treatise On The Correction of The Intellect And On The Way
In Which It Is Best Directed Towards The True Knowledge Of Things"

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