1. Science is measurement, detail without ambiguity, letting us know the inner working of systems. It wields authority because of its precision and measurement and, ideally, has universal rules.
2. Colloquial English has details that are adequate for phenomena.
3. Poetry gives experience imagination and is not intended to be literal. It uses emotion to inform us about objects. (The windows of heaven.)
Just some thoughts.
I use the term frenemies very loosely. My friends from college are generally anti-politics in the church. I can see that that is needed. But I am just burned out on this subject and plan to take it up in October.
On to other things, I was intent on starting to read the classics I own from college and read part of the life of Johnson and some Middle Ages material, but after having read the introduction to the Canterbury Tales, I no longer continued to read The Wife of Bath. Since I didn’t have the desire to read the footnotes in every line of Chaucer, I faded out.
I am now reading Isaacson’s Elon Musk. Yes, a big change, but I love it so far. What an interesting man. He is determined and aggressive–but even with his problems, accomplishes great things.
There are, of course, many anti-capitalist people out there today, but many people do recognize his brilliance.
This book contains two parts: on the essay and on the memoir. Read the second part first. Superb writer. She moves through the popular postmodern memoir of loneliness to the voice that shows without stating it.